I get that this game is a spin-off, but is the story canon?
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Spin-off
//ˈspɪn.ɔf//
Synonyms for "spin-off" (13 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (4)
Noun(3 words)
Related words (6)
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Translations
40 translations across 15 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- esqueix noun (fictional work)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 分流企業 /分流企业 noun (formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed)
- 副产品 noun (incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off)
- 番外篇 noun (fictional work)
- 衍生作品 noun (fictional work)
Esperanto
1 entries- kromprodukto noun (fictional work)
Finnish
4 entries- irrokki noun (formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed)
- irrotettu yritys noun (formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed)
- irrottaminen noun (formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed)
- lisähyöty noun (incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off)
French
1 entries- spin-off noun (fictional work)
German
3 entries- Ableger noun (fictional work)
- Ableger noun (formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed)
- Spin-off noun (formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed)
Greek
1 entries- τεχνοβλαστός noun (formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed)
Japanese
2 entries- スピンオフ noun (fictional work)
- 外伝 noun (fictional work)
Korean
1 entries- 스핀오프 noun (fictional work)
Malay
1 entries- cerita ranting noun (fictional work)
Polish
3 entries- produkt uboczny noun (incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off)
- spin-off noun (fictional work)
- spółka wydzielona noun (formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed)
Portuguese
1 entries- spin-off noun (fictional work)
Russian
1 entries- спин-о́фф noun (fictional work)
Spanish
2 entries- esqueje noun (fictional work)
- obra derivada noun (fictional work)
Swedish
2 entries- spin-off noun (fictional work)
- spin-off noun (formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Physicists who will conduct experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are generally focused on pure research, not practical applications. But as in the past, there are likely to be important spin-offs. Previous discoveries from fundamental science have led to indispensable tools in medicine, industry and research. And then, of course, the World Wide Web was invented at CERN. It was a spin-off from CERN's large research program in information technology.
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We are about to broach the fraught saga of the Circle Line, but there is another Metropolitan spin-off that comes first, one that has always appealed to me by the baleful beauty of its name: the City Widened Lines or 'The Widened Lines' for short.
Source: wiktionary
Space research often provides a spin-off for everyday technology.
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