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Princeton's WordNet

  1. by-product, byproductnoun

    a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence

  2. by-product, byproduct, spin-offnoun

    a product made during the manufacture of something else

Wiktionary

  1. by-productnoun

    A secondary product; something made incidentally during the production of something else.

  2. by-productnoun

    A side effect.

    The many Indian restaurants all over Britain are a by-product of the large waves of immigration from the subcontinent.

  3. Etymology: by(e) + product

Wikipedia

  1. By-product

    A by-product or byproduct is a secondary product derived from a production process, manufacturing process or chemical reaction; it is not the primary product or service being produced. A by-product can be useful and marketable or it can be considered waste: for example, bran, which is a byproduct of the milling of wheat into refined flour, is sometimes composted or burned for disposal, but in other cases, it can be used as a nutritious ingredient in human food or animal feed. Gasoline was once a byproduct of oil refining that later became a desirable commodity as motor fuel. The plastic used in plastic shopping bags also started as a by-product of oil refining.

ChatGPT

  1. by-product

    A by-product is a secondary or incidental product that is generated during the process of creating or manufacturing another primary product. It can be either useful or waste, depending on its usage.

Webster Dictionary

  1. By-productnoun

    a secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product

Wikidata

  1. By-product

    A by-product is a secondary product derived from a manufacturing process or chemical reaction. It is not the primary product or service being produced. In the context of production, a by-product can be defined as the 'output from a joint production process that is minor in quantity and/or NRV when compared to the main products'. Because they are deemed to have no influence on reported financial results, by-products do not receive allocations of joint costs. By products also by convention are not inventoried, but the NRV from by-products is typically recognized as 'other income' or as a reduction of joint production processing costs when the by-product is produced. A by-product can be useful and marketable or it can be considered waste. IEA offers the following definition for the purpose of life-cycle assessment:

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of by-product in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of by-product in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of by-product in a Sentence

  1. Geoff Revell:

    If you give people a bucket and a piece of soap, more often than not you will find the bucket ends up being used for something else, but if they spend some money on a product they like and actually want to own, it's much more likely that they will keep using it and form a healthy habit of washing their hands regularly.

  2. Nick Weber:

    Once you map it out, you can start to know about how those dynamics that you have an intuition about really affect your product and your category, and you can have a much more precise idea about how those dynamics are going to affect your products.

  3. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

    Complexity is a product of unawareness and simplicity a result of awareness! Uncomplex yourself, Live Life!

  4. Ned Sharpless:

    Based on our testing of samples to date, there does not appear to be one product or substance involved in all of the cases. It may be there is more than one cause to this outbreak, we do know that THC is present in most of the samples tested to date.

  5. Laura Allen:

    A period of low oil prices is a particularly important time to run operations more efficiently by keeping more of this valuable economic product – natural gas – in their systems.


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