spillover
Beyond the container
Spillover is what exceeds a container's capacity and flows over the edge, or more often, consequences that spread beyond their original boundaries.
Economic troubles in one country create spillover effects in neighboring economies.
A work crisis spills over into home life.
The spillover from the housing market collapse affected banks worldwide.
As an adjective: spillover parking, spillover costs.
Surplus beyond need
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
- overabundanceExcessive quantity beyond need
- oversupplyExcess beyond demand
- glutExcessive surplus
saturation · runoff · seepage · leakage · overflow · outpouring · brimming · overfill
Post-blast atmospheric particles
- repercussionsIndirect results of actions
- ramificationsResulting effects or outcomes
- aftereffectsDelayed secondary consequences
- side-effectsSecondary, unintended outcomes
blowback · backlash · implications · aftermath · externalities · trickle-down
Sending of information
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- zoonosisAnimal-to-human disease transmission
cross-species · vector · superspreader · cluster · hotspot · contact-tracing · spillback
To distribute widely
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- broadeningIncreasing in extent
- extensionAdded part or duration
- encroachmentGradual intrusion on territory
bleed-through · creep · diffusion · migration · dispersion · bleeding · seeping · infiltration
excess
Surplus beyond need
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
- overabundanceExcessive quantity beyond need
- oversupplyExcess beyond demand
glut · saturation · runoff · seepage · leakage · overflow · outpouring · brimming · overfill · drainage
fallout
Post-blast atmospheric particles
- repercussionsIndirect results of actions
- ramificationsResulting effects or outcomes
- aftereffectsDelayed secondary consequences
side-effects · blowback · backlash · implications · aftermath · externalities · trickle-down
transmission
Sending of information
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
zoonosis · cross-species · vector · superspreader · cluster · hotspot · contact-tracing · spillback
spread
To distribute widely
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- broadeningIncreasing in extent
- extensionAdded part or duration
encroachment · bleed-through · creep · diffusion · migration · dispersion · bleeding · seeping · infiltration · permeation
- compound wordsbookmark, breakdown, sunlight, breakup, snowflake
- floodsflood damage, flood warning, deluge, flood warnings, flash floods
- consequencesconsequence, consequences, result, results, effect
- overflowoverflow pipe, overflow drain, overflow tank, overfill, overspill
- burstsburst, gush, spurt, squirt, jet
- remaindersleftovers, remainder, remnants, residue, scraps
spillovercontainment
Preventing hostile expansion
retention · confinement · enclosure · sequestration · isolation
spilloverabsorption
Process of taking in
insulation · intake · isolation · inflow · buffering