Projection meaning

prə-jĕk'shən
The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others.
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A prediction or estimate of something in the future, based on present data or trends.
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The image of a geometric figure reproduced on a line, plane, or surface.
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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.
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The process of projecting an image onto a screen or other surface for viewing.
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An image so projected.
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The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt.
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A projecting or being projected.
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Something that projects, or juts out.
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Something that is projected.
  • In map making, the representation on a plane of the earth's surface (or the celestial sphere) or of a part thereof.
  • Any of various other two-dimensional pictorial representations of a three-dimensional object.
    Axonometric projection.
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A prediction or advance estimate based on known data or observations; extrapolation.
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The unconscious act or process of ascribing to others one's own ideas, impulses, or emotions, esp. when they are considered undesirable or cause anxiety.
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The process of projecting an image, as from a transparent slide, upon a screen, etc.
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A thing or part that extends outward beyond a prevailing line or surface.
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The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others, thought in psychoanalytic theory to be an unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt.
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Any of the systems of nerve fibers by which a group of nerve cells discharges its nerve impulses to one or more other cell groups.
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The image of a geometric figure reproduced on a line, plane, or surface.
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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.
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Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.

The face of the cliff had many projections which are big enough for birds to nest on.

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The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
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The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
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(psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself.
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(photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
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(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.
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(geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
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(linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
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(mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
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(category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
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The definition of a projection is something that is shown on a screen at a distance, or something that sticks out, or a future estimate or prediction made from current information, or when you assume that someone has the same emotions or feelings that you do.

An example of a projection is a movie.

An example of a projection is a bar coming out of a wall.

An example of a projection is a bank guessing what future interest rates will be.

An example of projection is seeing a sad person while you're sad and assuming they are sad for the same reasons.

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The act of projecting or the condition of being projected.
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A thing or part that extends outward beyond a prevailing line or surface.

Spiky projections on top of a fence; a projection of land along the coast.

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A plan for an anticipated course of action.
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Origin of projection

From either the Middle French projection or its etymon, the Classical Latin prōiectiō (stem: prōiectiōn-), from prōiciō. Compare the Modern French projection, the German Projektion, and the Italian proiezione.

Sentence Examples

  • Centre of the church and projection of the dome.

  • The earliest of these, a trapeziform projection with equidistant parallels, by D.

  • The hind-foot is remarkable for the great backward projection of the calcaneum, and likewise for the peculiar shape of the astragalus; the middle toe alone carries a claw, this being of huge size, and ensheathed like those of the fore foot.

  • The sea does not appear to have extended completely across Australia, breaking it into halves, for a projection from the Archean plateau of Western Australia extended as far east as the South Australian highlands, and thence probably continued eastward, till it joined the Victorian highlands.

  • Thus he says that the silver which has been changed into gold by the projection of the red elixir is not rendered resistant to the agents which affect silver but not gold, and Albertus Magnus in his De Mineralibus - the De Alchemia attributed to him is spurious - states that alchemy cannot change species but merely imitates them - for instance, colours a metal white to make it resemble silver or yellow to give it the appearance of gold.

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