byproduct

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,271 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: byproducts

A byproduct is something produced incidentally while making something else. A useful byproduct.

Some of them are worth more than the thing that was being made. Glycerine was a byproduct of soap for a century before anybody found a use for it.

Definitions of byproduct

1nounbyproductSomething produced incidentally while making something else.B2+
“The heat was a byproduct they eventually sold.”

byproduct is a product.

Where it comes from

Latin
prōductus
Middle English
product
English
product
English, today
byproduct

From by- + product. product comes from Middle English product, from Latin prōductus. From Middle English product, from Latin prōductus, perfect participle of prōdūcō, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

byproduct in the wild

Along with the germ, it is an integral part of whole grains, and is often produced as a byproduct of milling in the production of refined grains.
Bran
A by-product or byproduct is a secondary product derived from a production process, manufacturing process or chemical reaction; it is not the primary product or service being produced.
By-product
Gasoline was once a byproduct of oil refining that later became a desirable commercial product as motor fuel.
By-product
According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), there are four different types of regulated nuclear materials: special nuclear material, source material, byproduct material and radium.
Nuclear material
By the 1970s, the overflow of the byproduct provided a cheap source of protein before economic growth allowed broader access to meat supply.
Beondegi

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Related words

the prōductus family

product

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