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spillover, n. and a.|ˈspɪləʊvə(r)|
Also spill-over.
[f. spill- + over adv.]
A. n. That which spills over; the process of spilling over; (an) incidental development; a consequence, a repercussion, a by-product.
1940[see Karok]. 1949Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 6 Oct. 26/1 A rush to buy got under way as soon as the opening bell sounded. This was evidently a spillover from yesterday when the market established a new high for the year. 1957J. I. M. Stewart James Joyce 10 This has no relevance to the action, and is a spill-over from Joyce's more openly autobiographical writing in the history of Dedalus. 1957P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound 269 Weber..looks for the source of change in social tensions..; the danger of resentment of disciplinary authority..; or the spill-over into irrational channels of affect which is not absorbed by the rational order. 1962Lancet 12 May 1009/1, 32 patients had pulmonary disease preoperatively, presumably owing to ‘spill-over’, and only in those with chronic pulmonary suppuration did this fail to clear up. 1970Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 11 Nov. 3/5 The threat to Canadian security possibly being greater from a spillover of violence and the potential of anarchy in the streets. 1971Gloss. Electrotechnical, Power Terms (B.S.I.) iii. ii. 27 Spill-over, in a.c. signalling on multi-link connections, that part of a signal which passes from one section to another before the connection between the sections is split. 1973‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Starry Bird vii. 97 The revolver was pointed straight at my head... I wasn't keen on the spillover into small arms. 1977New Yorker 26 Sept. 66/3 The continuing rise in crime, its increasing spillover into the white community, and the failure of our criminal justice system..have created apprehension. 1979United States 1980/81 (Penguin Travel Guides) 309 Soho is a very livable combination of 19th-century cast-iron buildings, spillovers from Little Italy. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Sept. 965/5 What economists call ‘spillovers’—those unwanted side-effects, incidental to the legitimate production and use of man-made goods, that are familiar to the public as pollution, noise, congestion and other pervasive hazards and disadvantages.
B. attrib. or as adj. That results from spilling over; incidentally developed.
1953J. S. Huxley Evolution in Action iv. 96 The nervous excitation spills over and is discharged into another channel, that of digging a nest hole. Such irrelevant spill-over activities are called displacement activities. 1961Listener 2 Nov. 692/2 It is always experimental (and exciting) to work on the basis of ‘spillover’ audiences, and place a known ‘difficult’ programme immediately after a known winner. 1967Spectator 14 July 44/1 With the postwar growth of technology and population these disservices or ‘spillover effects’..have become too conspicuous to be ignored. 1971Physics Bull. Nov. 654/2 The tilting of the subreflection of a Cassegrain antenna with the object of redirecting spillover radiation away from warm earth regions, has considerable geometric optical consequences. 1981Times 31 July 19/1 If the United States slips into recession the spill-over effect could hamper what appears to be a slow recovery in the world chemical industry. |