Spillover
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Spillover is a noun meaning That which overflows; the excess or side effect.
Meaning
That which overflows; the excess or side effect.
More Meanings
- (epidemiology) The spread of infectious disease between different species of animal and particularly to humans.
Example Sentences
The spillover from this war will be many little massacres of civilians by civilians.
The spillover from the dam due to the heavy rains will run down this channel and harmlessly dump into that river, we hope.
The pool table is a sort of spill-over from Upstairs, the suspiciously-named Ramrod Room, which operates almost as a separate bar.
And Mr. Pike, for practically all of his sixty-nine years, has stood his watch-and-watch, with many a spill-over of watches into watches.
Word Forms
- spillovers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overflow, spillage, outflow, outpouring, spill, ripple.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.