Definition of "spin-off" [spin-off]

• Offshoot. (noun)
• An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off. (noun)
• By-product. (noun)
• A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same equivalent setting, often in a different aspect. (noun)
• The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed. (noun)

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• "Now he returns to the subject of the cultural collision of east and west in what he calls a spin-off rather than a sequel."
• "The process of separating the exceptional subsidiary from the parent is called a spin-off."
• "BlueVia, a spin-off from the Spanish telecomTelefonica, could be the solution to Twitter's problem."