Projection Definition

prə-jĕkshən
projections
noun
projections
A projecting or being projected.
Webster's New World
A thing or part that extends outward beyond a prevailing line or surface.
American Heritage Medicine
Something that projects, or juts out.
Webster's New World
A plan for an anticipated course of action.
American Heritage
A prediction or advance estimate based on known data or observations; extrapolation.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Projection

Noun

Singular:
projection
Plural:
projections

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.

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Projection Sentence Examples

  • Nicolaus Germanus (1466), naturally led to what is generally known as Flamsteed's projection.

  • Glareanus (1510) was the first to employ an equidistant zenithal polar projection.

  • Ptolemy's great merit consists in having accepted the views of Hipparchus with respect to a projection suited for a map of the world.

  • He seems to have been well acquainted with the projection of images of objects through small apertures, and to have been the first to show that the arrival of the image of an object at the concave surface of the common nerve - or the retina - corresponds with the passage of light from an object through an aperture in a darkened place, from which it falls upon a surface facing the aperture.

  • Something near this must have been Lima-teu's projection.

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Words Starting With

PPRPRO

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With P and Ending With N

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