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 Definitions of projection  [əˈdʒɛk ʃən]  

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Definition of 'projection' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) projection
the act, process, or result of projecting.

2.  projection
a projecting or protruding part.

3.  projection
the state or fact of jutting out or protruding.

4.  projection
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.

5.  projection
the act of reproducing on a surface, by optical means, a remote image on a film, slide, etc.

6.  projection
the image reproduced.

7.  projection
the act of visualizing an idea as an objective reality.

8.  projection
something that is so visualized.

9.  projection
calculation of some future cost, revenue, etc.:
a projection for the rate of growth.

10.  projection
the act of communicating distinctly and forcefully to an audience.

11.  projection
the attribution to another person or object the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes present in oneself.

12.  projection
the act of planning or scheming.

Etymology:  (1470–80; < L)

Definition of 'projection' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) projection
a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

2. (noun) projection
the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

3. (noun) project, projection
a planned undertaking

4. (noun) projection
any structure that branches out from a central support

5. (noun) projection
any solid convex shape that juts out from something

6. (noun) projection
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

7. (noun) projection, acoustic projection, sound projection
the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
"our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection"; "a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice"

8. (noun) projection
the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction

9. (noun) protrusion, projection, jut, jutting
the act of projecting out from something

10. (noun) expulsion, projection, ejection, forcing out
the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting


Definition of 'projection' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) projection
a prediction of how sth will develop in the future; = forecast
a projection for sales over the next five years

2.  projection
the process of showing images through a projector
problems with projection in the theater

3.  projection
sth that sticks out
a projection of rock


Definition of 'projection' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) projection
the act of throwing or shooting forward

2. (noun) projection
a jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else

3. (noun) projection
the act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan

4. (noun) projection
the representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each

5. (noun) projection
any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane


Definition of 'projection' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  projection
A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, whereby that which is emotionally unacceptable in the self is rejected and attributed (projected) to others.


Translation of 'projection' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: something that is thrown, usually as a weapon.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: projeksie Arabic flag Arabic: قَذْف Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: хвърляне
Brazilian flag Brazilian: projeção Czech flag Czech: projekce German flag German: der Wurf
Danish flag Danish: fremvisning Greek flag Greek: προβολή, ρίψη Spanish flag Spanish: proyección
Estonian flag Estonian: projitseerimine Farsi flag Farsi: پرتاب Finnish flag Finnish: projektio
French flag French: projection Hebrew flag Hebrew: הַשלָכָה Hindi flag Hindi: प्रक्षेप
Hungarian flag Hungarian: kilövés Indonesian flag Indonesian: proyeksi Icelandic flag Icelandic: e-ð sem skagar fram; kast
Italian flag Italian: proiezione Japanese flag Japanese: 発射 Korean flag Korean: 발사
Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: metimas, išsikišimas Latvian flag Latvian: projektēšana; projicēšana Malay flag Malay: unjuran
Dutch flag Dutch: uitstekend deel, raming, Norwegian flag Norwegian: utskyting; tapp, projiser Polish flag Polish: rzut, występ
Persian flag Persian: پرتاب Pashto flag Pashto: غورځول،اچول Portuguese flag Portuguese: projecção
Romanian flag Romanian: proiecţie Russian flag Russian: проектирование;бросание; Slovak flag Slovak: projekcia
Slovenian flag Slovenian: načrt; projekcija Serbian flag Serbian: projekcija Swedish flag Swedish: projektering, projicering
Thai flag Thai: การวางแผน Turkish flag Turkish: gösterim Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 設計,規劃
Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: проектування Urdu flag Urdu: خاکہ، تجويز Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự phóng ra
Chinese flag Chinese: 设计,规划

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