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projection
  1. Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
  2. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
  3. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
  4. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
  5. (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself
  6. (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
  7. (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions.
  8. (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
  9. (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
  10. (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
  11. (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
  12. Synonyms:
  13. Examples:
    1. “The foreign body bypassed all the vital structures and was observed as a projection in the skin of the patient's neck.”
      “The cliff immediately opposite to Dick Varley was a huge projection from the precipice that hemmed in the gorge.”
      “The government is counting on rising exports to meet its 3.68 percent economic growth projection for this year.”
project
  1. A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
  2. (plural) An urban low-income housing building.
  3. (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
  4. (obsolete) A projectile.
  5. (obsolete) A projection.
  6. (obsolete) The place from which a thing projects.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “I had to launch my own campaign to get the project off the ground.”
      “The ants are a school project in which the students hope to learn how low gravity may affect the ants' behavior.”
projector
  1. An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen.
  2. (dated) A person who devises or manages projects; a planner.
  3. (psychology) One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “It was after three a.m. when the whirr of a single projector gave way to the roar of three projectors running simultaneously.”
      “He began to concentrate on the rat-a-tat of the film rolling through the projector.”
      “The projector in the middle of the domed theatre clicks and whirs into action, showing a stunning display of the night skies.”
projective
  1. (psychology) An assessment test that presents subjects with some sort of stimulus to which they react by projecting or imagining details.
  2. (mathematics) A projective member of a category.
  3. (linguistics) A statement about a conditional or potential state of affairs, as opposed to one about a situation that actually exists or existed.
projectionist
  1. A person who operates a film projector, especially one who does so as an occupation at a movie theatre or drive-in theatre.
  2. One who subscribes to the philosophy of projectionism.
  3. Examples:
    1. “She also tells the astonished projectionist that they have reincarnated together many times throughout the centuries in different roles.”
      “After starting work as a projectionist at 15, Arthur worked at various cinemas in Hyde.”
      “Urban legend has it that the Paramount is haunted by the ghost of a projectionist!”
projectization
  1. The allocation of funds to a specific project regardless of any other consideration.
  2. The organization of business management around project teams as opposed to functional groups.
projectile
  1. an object intended to be or having been fired from a weapon.
  2. (physics) any object propelled through space by the application of a force.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Such a clean penetration could have been caused only by a high-speed projectile, such as rifle bullet.”
projecting
projectionism
  1. (philosophy) The idea that individuals form an idea of the external world by projecting their own internal beliefs onto it.
projet
  1. A plan proposed; a draft of a proposed measure; a project.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The F.lli Bizzarri s.r.l. firm projet and realises clarification plants for roiled water coming from the aggregate washing.”
      “Tout à toi, Freddie Dear Freddie, I am delighted you have entered so fully into the spirit of my grand projet.”
      “It has a big role in staging the London Olympics in 2012, perhaps the biggest grand projet undertaken by this government.”
projecture
  1. A jutting out beyond a surface; a projection.
projectment
projicient
  1. (obsolete) Someone or something that launches a projectile.
projectability
  1. (mathematics) The condition of being projectable
projectivity
  1. (mathematics) The condition of being projective.
projectress
  1. (rare) A female projector.
projectour
  1. Obsolete form of projector.
projects
projectionists
  1. plural of projectionist
projectivities
  1. plural of projectivity
projectments
  1. plural of projectment
projectresses
  1. plural of projectress
projectiles
  1. plural of projectile
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The new tapering projectiles could be directed with greater accuracy when rifling was introduced in artillery barrels.”
      “Tornado, Jaguar and Harrier jets, of the Royal Air Force, scream overhead loosing off powerful projectiles which thud into the targets below.”
      “In a siege, the ramparts of the castle were often bombarded by large projectiles from catapults.”
projectings
projections
  1. plural of projection
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Defined benefit plans need to evolve to the Internet age with frequent access to benefit accruals and projections.”
      “Also list key accounts, potential customers, market survey data, drawings, agreements, and financial projections to the plan.”
      “The general form of these planes is that of a jack plane with projections on either side of the sole.”
projectives
  1. plural of projective
  2. Examples:
    1. “The projectives suggested considerable difficulty with women and a conflict between sexual preoccupation and hostility.”
      “In particular our assumptions hold if B is an abelian category with enough projectives.”
      “By 2.2 we see that this is a full, contravariant imbedding, and by 2.3 the image of A in is a generating set of small projectives.”
projectours
  1. plural of projectour
projectures
  1. plural of projecture
projicients
  1. plural of projicient
projectors
  1. plural of projector
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Mobile wall panels peel away to reveal film projectors and screens, and shifting lights cast shimmering patterns on the canvas roof.”
      “Meanwhile, two video projectors displayed enigmatic images on opposite walls.”
      “Gone from the center are the 16 mm film projectors, filmstrip projectors and all but one video editing machine of yesteryear.”
projets
  1. plural of projet
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