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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spillover
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 create incentives to make such ventures as inclusive as possible.
■ NOUN
benefit
▪ What divergences arise between equilibrium and optimal output when a spillover costs and b spillover benefits are present?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ D1 is drawn to include these private benefits plus the additional spillover benefits accruing to society at large.
▪ If the hepatic capacity to eliminate portal endotoxins is exceeded, spillover into the systemic circulation will occur.
▪ In a functional sense, spillover was founded on the belief that contemporary economies were based upon a tangle of interrelated sectors.
▪ More important, perhaps, was the notion of political spillover.
▪ Such benefits and costs are called spillover or external benefits and costs.
▪ The spillover from this popularity also affected other types of historicals.
▪ The paucity of cases emphasises the difficulty of virus spillover into the urban cycle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spillover

1940, from verbal phrase, from spill (v.) + over (adv.). From 1953 as an adjective.

Wiktionary
spillover

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.

WordNet
spillover

n. (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure

Wikipedia
Spillover (imaging)

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 computed tomography (SPECT) because of their limited spatial resolution. Although partial volume effect and spillover refer to essentially the same physical problem, it is important to distinguish the outcome of these two different effects. For partial volume effect, the apparent loss of activity in the object is distributed across adjacent voxels, which are considered outside the object, resulting in increase in activity in these voxels. This increase in activity is referred to as spillover, whereas loss in activity is referred to as partial volume loss.

Spillover

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 occurs when an infectious reservoir population affects a novel host
  • Spillover-crossover model in psychology distinguishes spillover from crossover as components of transfer of well-being
  • Adsorption spillover, a chemical phenomenon involving the movement of atoms adsorbed onto a metal surface
  • Knowledge spillover, exchange of ideas among individuals
  • In economics, spillover from disequilibrium in one market may influence effective demand in another market

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.