Projective definition

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Extending outward; projecting.
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Relating to or made by projection.
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(mathematics) Designating a property of a geometric figure that does not vary when the figure undergoes projection.
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Of or made by projection.
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Designating or of a type of psychological test, as the Rorschach test, in which any response the subject makes to the test material will be indicative of personality traits and unconscious motivations.
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Of, relating to, or caused by a projection.
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(mathematics) Describing those properties of a figure that are invariant upon projection.
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Origin of projective

  • Formed by the suffixation of prōiect- (the perfect passive participial stem of the Classical Latin prōiciō, whence the English verb project) with the English -ive; however, compare the post-Classical Latin prōiectÄ«vus (“relating to purging").

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Projective Sentence Examples

  • Analytic This is the analytical expression of the projective Geometry.

  • Mobius must be regarded as one of the leaders in the introduction of the powerful methods of modern projective geometry.

  • It was during his imprisonment here that, "prive de toute espece de livres et de secours, surtout distrait par les malheurs de ma patrie et les miens propres," as he himself puts it, he began his researches on projective geometry which led to his great treatise on that subject.

  • They are objects of desire and exchange, actors in subsistence, ceremonial and market economies and sites of deep projective identification.

  • For the subjects under this heading see the articles CONIC SECTIONS; CIRCLE; CURVE; GEOMETRICAL CONTINUITY; GEOMETRY, Axioms of; GEOMETRY, Euclidean; GEOMETRY, Projective; GEOMETRY, Analytical; GEOMETRY, Line; KNOTS, MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF; MENSURATION; MODELS; PROJECTION; Surface; Trigonometry.

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