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(economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure
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spillover
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE technological ▪ When technological spillovers exist, firms find it difficult to appropriate the full benefits of their research activities. ▪ The existence of technological spillovers and positive pecuniary externalities ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1940, from verbal phrase, from spill (v.) + over (adv.). From 1953 as an adjective.
Wikipedia
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Spillover effect can be defined as an apparent gain in activity for small objects or regions, as opposed to the partial volume effect. It occurs often in biological imaging modalities such as positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission ...
WordNet
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n. (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 That which overflows; the excess or side effect. 2 The spread of infectious disease between different species of animal and particularly to humans.
Usage examples of spillover.
There may be a similar spillover among calliagnosics, but since calliagnosia is subtler than prosopagnosia, any spillover is harder to measure.
Much more plausible is the computer-based explanation that dreams are a spillover from the unconscious processing of the day's experience, from the brain's decision on how much of the daily events temporarily stored in a kind of buffer to emplace in long-term memory.