projection
a projecting or protruding part.
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.
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.
Origin of projection
1Other words for projection
Other words from projection
- pro·jec·tion·al [pruh-jek-shuh-nl], /prəˈdʒɛk ʃə nl/, adjective
- non·pro·jec·tion, noun
- self-pro·jec·tion, noun
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How to use projection in a sentence
Most of the scenarios we offered surrounding the November election didn’t cause them to budge substantially from their existing projections.
Even With A Vaccine, The Economy Could Take Many Months To Return To Normal | Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux | August 25, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightBut, because of the uncertainty involved in basing projections on historical trends, we constructed additional scenarios with slower or faster growth of education and family planning access.
How Rising Education for Women Is Shaping the Global Population - Facts So Romantic | Kiki Sanford | August 19, 2020 | NautilusBeing able to account for the lag between when a user clicks on an ad and when they perform a conversion action can help advertisers get more accurate campaign projections.
Google Performance Planner adds support for conversion delay and shared budgets | George Nguyen | August 17, 2020 | Search Engine LandA twelve-month forecast allows customers to be able to take their sales projections and fit them on top of the SEO opportunity.
How to craft a winning SEO proposal and avoid getting a silent ‘No’ | Sponsored Content: SEOmonitor | August 3, 2020 | Search Engine LandThe shift is expected to put women in charge of about $30 trillion of assets by 2030, roughly a $20 trillion increase from 2016, according to projections from McKinsey, the consulting firm.
US women will take control of an additional $20 trillion in wealth this decade | John Detrixhe | July 29, 2020 | Quartz
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.
Brooklyn Shooting Hits Close to Bill de Blasio’s Park Slope Home | Michael Daly | July 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI sat there in the projection booth and thought, “Oh my god, you could tell a story this way?”
Paul Haggis on Scientology, the ‘Crash’ Oscar, and ‘Third Person’ | Kevin Fallon | June 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe walking-and-talking projection is estimated to have cost about $400,000 and took four months to complete.
Michael Jackson's Crazy Billboard Awards Performance and More Hologram Wins and Fails (VIDEO) | The Daily Beast | May 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAlthough it is being called a hologram, it was actually a 2-D projection.
Michael Jackson's Crazy Billboard Awards Performance and More Hologram Wins and Fails (VIDEO) | The Daily Beast | May 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was round, with a small, rectangular projection for the operator's controls and calculator.
Fee of the Frontier | Horace Brown FyfeIn a moment her mind lost its tensity of projection and she was almost flying down her own long stair.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThey are brown, ovoid in shape, about 50 long, and have a button-like projection at each end (Fig. 101).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddAt 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).
British Dictionary definitions for projection
/ (prəˈdʒɛkʃən) /
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
Derived forms of projection
- projectional, adjective
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Scientific definitions for 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 conic projection cylindrical projection.
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