Noun
That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
Source: Webster's dictionarySymmetrical equations are good in their place, but 'vector' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature. William Thomson
These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next. Marc Almond
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does. George Lucas
Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. Michael Novak
I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city. Dana Spiotta
An offshoot of the work at MIT by Bush and others was the beginning of digital circuit design theory. Source: Internet