"spin off" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spins off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spinning off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spun off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spun off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "spin<,,spun> off"
      },
      "expansion": "spin off (third-person singular simple present spins off, present participle spinning off, simple past and past participle spun off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "spin down"
        },
        {
          "word": "spin out"
        },
        {
          "word": "spin up"
        },
        {
          "word": "split off"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "spin-off"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "spinoff"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a line of merchandise spun off from a TV series"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, PC Tech Journal, volume 5, page 23",
          "text": "For example, an OS/2-based data manager might spin off a thread to sort a file or allow two files to be sorted at the same time, one using CPU time while the other is waiting for disk I/O.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 17, Jamie Smyth, “Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?”, in Financial Times",
          "text": "Halks-Miller’s discovery fired the starting gun on the race to develop a diagnostic blood test. Illumina spun off a new company, Grail, to develop the test, raising more than $2bn from investors including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the Chinese company Tencent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To create (something) as a by-product or a secondary derived work."
      ],
      "id": "en-spin_off-en-verb-fvPzrc0g",
      "links": [
        [
          "by-product",
          "by-product"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To create (something) as a by-product or a secondary derived work."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to create as by-product",
          "tags": [
            "slang"
          ],
          "topics": [
            "business"
          ],
          "word": "spinnata"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to create as by-product",
          "word": "derivare"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to create as by-product",
          "word": "ricadere"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to create as by-product",
          "word": "scorporare"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spin off"
}

{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "spin down"
    },
    {
      "word": "spin out"
    },
    {
      "word": "spin up"
    },
    {
      "word": "split off"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "spin-off"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "spinoff"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spins off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spinning off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spun off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spun off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "spin<,,spun> off"
      },
      "expansion": "spin off (third-person singular simple present spins off, present participle spinning off, simple past and past participle spun off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English links with manual fragments",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a line of merchandise spun off from a TV series"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, PC Tech Journal, volume 5, page 23",
          "text": "For example, an OS/2-based data manager might spin off a thread to sort a file or allow two files to be sorted at the same time, one using CPU time while the other is waiting for disk I/O.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 17, Jamie Smyth, “Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?”, in Financial Times",
          "text": "Halks-Miller’s discovery fired the starting gun on the race to develop a diagnostic blood test. Illumina spun off a new company, Grail, to develop the test, raising more than $2bn from investors including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the Chinese company Tencent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To create (something) as a by-product or a secondary derived work."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "by-product",
          "by-product"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To create (something) as a by-product or a secondary derived work."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to create as by-product",
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business"
      ],
      "word": "spinnata"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to create as by-product",
      "word": "derivare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to create as by-product",
      "word": "ricadere"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to create as by-product",
      "word": "scorporare"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spin off"
}