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[ noun ] a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence
Synonyms Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)Meager and shabby by-products linger to haunt our memories of a once mighty protagonist ; a maladroit reharmonization of our National_Anthem ( The Star-Spangled_Banner ) ; a poor attempt to write an idiomatic jazz concerto ; a circus polka for elephants ; his hopes that the tunes from his old music might be used for popular American commercial songs ! (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)Scientists and fishermen have occasionally seen strange by-products of the phenomenon . (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)the aspect of learning the internal organization of obvious natural genetic groups of languages as_well as their more remote and elusive external links ; of classification first , with elapsed age merely a by-product ; of acquiring evidential knowledge of what happened in Athabascan , in Yokuts , in Uto-Aztecan in the last few thousand years as_well as forecasting what more anciently may have happened between them . (Doris Miles Disney, Mrs. Meeker's Money....)It would be all_right with him , he decided , if his investigation of the fraud , with its probable by-product of murder , led to Garth 's door . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a product made during the manufacture of something else
Used in print (Statements 87th Congress, 1st Session. Appropriations,...)study methods for the recovery and marketing of commercially valuable byproducts resulting from the conversion of saline water ; and undertake economic studies and surveys to determine present and prospective costs of producing water for beneficial consumptive purposes in various parts of the United_States by the leading saline water processes as compared with other standard methods . The Secretary may dispose of water and byproducts resulting from his operations under this Act . |
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