BY-PRODUCT

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A product made during the manufacture of something else

Synonyms:

by-product; byproduct; spin-off

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("by-product" is a kind of...):

product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence

Synonyms:

by-product; byproduct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("by-product" is a kind of...):

consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "by-product"):

epiphenomenon (a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon)

Credits

Context examples:

A low viscosity liquid by-product of the distillation of petroleum consisting of a mixture of alkanes in the C15 to C40 range.

(Light Mineral Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

A shiny, dark brown to black by-product of the distillation of coal tars and contains various polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their methyl and polymethyl derivatives, as well as hetero-nuclear compounds.

(Coal Tar Pitch, NCI Thesaurus)

Actually a complex mixture of isomers, other chlorinated hydrocarbons, and by-products, chlordane is used in termite and ant control, and as a protective treatment for underground cables.

(Chlordane, NCI Thesaurus)

There were three main alloy groups in the by-product, sometimes with small amounts of other metals mixed in: iron-aluminium, iron-silicon, and calcium-silicon-aluminium.

(Scientists Find Way to Extract Oxygen from Moon Dirt, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The toxicity of Agent Orange is due to by-products from metabolic processes upon intake.

(Agent Orange, NCI Thesaurus)

Benzene is found in crude oils and as a by-product of oil-refining processes.

(Benzene, NCI Thesaurus)

The process also produces synthetic fuel as a by-product, which could also have industrial applications.

(Scientists Turn CO2 into Solid Coal, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This species is non-sporulating, ferments fructose and glutamate and produces butyric acid as a major metabolic by-product.

(Fusobacterium nucleatum, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is sporulating, ferments glucose and xylose and produces butyric acid and acetic acid as fermentation by-products.

(Clostridium tyrobutyricum, NCI Thesaurus)

It consists of complex and varying mixtures of particles suspended in the air such as fine solids such as dirt, soil dust, pollens, molds, ashes, and soot; and aerosols that are formed in the atmosphere from gaseous combustion by-products such as volatile organic compounds, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.