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projection
[ pruh-jek-shuhn ]
noun
- a projecting or protruding part.
Synonyms: jut, protrusion, overhang
- the state or fact of jutting out or protruding.
- a causing to jut or protrude.
- the act, process, or result of projecting.
- Also called map projection. Cartography. a systematic construction of lines drawn on a plane surface representative of and corresponding to the meridians and parallels of the curved surface of the earth or celestial sphere.
- Photography.
- the act of reproducing on a surface, by optical means, a remote image on a film, slide, etc.
- an image so reproduced.
- the act of visualizing and regarding an idea or the like as an objective reality.
- something that is so visualized and regarded.
- calculation of some future thing:
They fell short of their projection for the rate of growth.
Synonyms: extrapolation, forecast, prediction
- the act of communicating distinctly and forcefully to an audience.
- Psychology.
- the tendency to ascribe to another person feelings, thoughts, or attitudes present in oneself, or to regard external reality as embodying such feelings, thoughts, etc., in some way.
- Psychoanalysis. such an ascription relieving the ego of a sense of guilt or other intolerable feeling.
- the act of planning or scheming.
- Alchemy. the casting of the powder of philosophers' stone upon metal in fusion, to transmute it into gold or silver.
projection
/ prəˈdʒɛkʃən /
noun
- the act of projecting or the state of being projected
- an object or part that juts out
- See map projection
- the representation of a line, figure, or solid on a given plane as it would be seen from a particular direction or in accordance with an accepted set of rules
- a scheme or plan
- a prediction based on known evidence and observations
- the process of showing film on a screen
- the image or images shown
- psychol
- the belief, esp in children, that others share one's subjective mental life
- the process of projecting one's own hidden desires and impulses See also defence mechanism
- the mixing by alchemists of powdered philosopher's stone with molten base metals in order to transmute them into gold
projection
/ prə-jĕk′shən /
- The image of a geometric figure reproduced on a line, plane, or surface.
- A system of intersecting lines, such as the grid of a map, on which part or all of the globe or another spherical surface is represented as a plane surface.
- See more at azimuthal projection
Derived Forms
- proˈjectional, adjective
Other Words From
- pro·jec·tion·al [pr, uh, -, jek, -sh, uh, -nl], adjective
- nonpro·jection noun
- self-pro·jection noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of projection1
Example Sentences
Oftentimes public fear like this can be a self-indulgent kind of collective astral projection.
Most gun nuts have them less for self-protection than self-projection.
I sat there in the projection booth and thought, “Oh my god, you could tell a story this way?”
The walking-and-talking projection is estimated to have cost about $400,000 and took four months to complete.
Although it is being called a hologram, it was actually a 2-D projection.
It was round, with a small, rectangular projection for the operator's controls and calculator.
In a moment her mind lost its tensity of projection and she was almost flying down her own long stair.
They are brown, ovoid in shape, about 50 long, and have a button-like projection at each end (Fig. 101).
At one o'clock we were near a low sandy projection round which the coast extends to the East-North-East and forms a shallow bay.
The projection of land fixed upon for the site of a town, was named after the commandant (Captain Barlow).
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