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spillover
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Spillover may refer to: Spillover effect , an economic effect Spillover of the Syrian Civil War Spillover (imaging) , in e.g. tomography, an imaging effect that exaggerates small objects, because of limited resolution Spillover infection or pathogen spillover ...
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.
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.
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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure
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.