spillovern.adj.

1940 Oregon: End of Trail (Federal Writers' Project) 34 The southern part of Oregon was occupied by..two ‘spill-overs’ from California—the Shastas and Karoks.

1949 Richmond (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.

1957 J. 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.

1957 P. 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.

1962 Lancet 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.

1970 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 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.

1971 Gloss. 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.

1977 New 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.

1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 309 Soho is a very livable combination of 19th-century cast-iron buildings, spillovers from Little Italy.

1980 Times 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.

1953 J. S. Huxley Evol. 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.

1961 Listener 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.

1967 Spectator 14 July 44/1 With the postwar growth of technology and population these disservices or ‘spillover effects’..have become too conspicuous to be ignored.

1971 Physics 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.

1981 Times 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.