throwoff

English

Noun

throwoff (plural throwoffs)

1. Alternative form of throw-off
   1. Income minus expenses and depreciation
      • 1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Hearings, page 27:

        Adding to his depreciation of $750,000, he would have a cash throwoff of $1,100,000.

      • 1962, Systems Analysis & Research Corporation, The Cost of Air Cargo Service, page 113:

        As the equipment is depreciated the cash throwoff generated increases the working capital by an identical amount.

      • 1974, Robert M. Soldofsky, Garnet D. Olive, Financial Management, page 390:

        The cash throwoff becomes available to management to apply to the business in the most desirable manner.

      • 1979, University of Florida. Real Estate Research Center, Real Estate Appraisal, Finance, Investment, and Business, page 153:

        Note that the loan carrying and the second highest interest rate requires the smallest annual payment and yields the lowest cash throwoff.

   2. Control for disengaging a mechanism
      • 1963, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Lithographer 3 & 2, page 453:

        The impression throwoff lever and starting and stopping buttons are similar to those found on the other presses.

      • 1971, United States. Department of the Army, Craft Techniques in Occupational Therapy, pages 12-31:

        When the rhythm and the coordination of hands and foot have been mastered and the printer feels relaxed and at ease, then the throwoff lever is pulled back and printing is started.

   3. Deflection of a projectile
      • 2018, Donald E. Carlucci, Sidney S. Jacobson, Ballistics:

        We can use the analogy of a vacuum trajectory to examine the lateral throwoff effect generated by either a static or a dynamic imbalance.

   4. Something off-the-cuff
      • 1955, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Investigation on Administration of Refugee Relief Act, page 253:

        In talking to them they will drop another name and we will check that one throwoff.

   5. The act of flinging off
      • 1979, Josef Henrych, The Dynamics of Explosion and Its Use, page 300:

        Figure 5.40b shows the case of a dam produced by two delayed throwoff blasts in one slope; the upper charge (or row) is fired first and the lower one within a certain interval.

   6. Something thrown off
      • 1966, Paul Holmes, Retrial; Murder and Dr. Sam Sheppard, page 213:

        Assuming a bloody instrument being swung in an arc, can you tell us what you mean by weapon throwoff and what causes it?

   7. Incidental creation
      • 1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Civil Defense for National Survival:

        Is it your understanding that genetic damage by radiation so increases the balance that it would upset the throwoff rate established naturally?