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Projection   /prədʒˈɛkʃən/   Listen
Projection

noun
1.
A prediction made by extrapolating from past observations.
2.
The projection of an image from a film onto a screen.
3.
A planned undertaking.  Synonym: project.
4.
Any structure that branches out from a central support.
5.
Any solid convex shape that juts out from something.
6.
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else.
7.
The acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality.  Synonyms: acoustic projection, sound projection.  "A prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice"
8.
The representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction.
9.
The act of projecting out from something.  Synonyms: jut, jutting, protrusion.
10.
The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting.  Synonyms: ejection, expulsion, forcing out.



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"Projection" Quotes from Famous Books



... fit the amiableness of his face. He looked gentle, good-natured; he was soft-spoken; he gave an impression of kindness. But Joan began to realize that he was not what he seemed. He had something on his mind. It was not conscience, nor a burden: it might be a projection, a plan, an absorbing scheme, a something that gained food with thought. Joan wondered doubtfully if it were the ransom of gold ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey

... by a numeral; and you can generally count on a barometer, and learn the names of lights and lands you pass; possibly there may even be a thermometer, and certainly a compass. On this "Egypt," barring a small scale Mercator's projection of the world on which the ship's position is marked daily, there is no means of getting the information that can make a sea voyage so infinitely interesting. I would suggest large sized charts showing landmarks, ship's position, ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch

... a general rule for the central chapel, it seems to have left great freedom in the windows near by. At Chartres the curved projection that contains the next two windows was not a chapel, but only a window-bay, for the sake of the windows, and, if the artists aimed at pleasing the Virgin, they would put their best work there. At Bourges in the same relative place are three of the best windows in the building:—the Prodigal ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams

... entered not at all into his composition. In his earlier life, he appears to have given evidences of courage and sturdy principle, and of a tendency to fling himself into the rough struggle of humanity on the liberal side. It would be taking too much upon myself to affirm that this was merely a projection of his fancy-world into the actual, and that he never could have hit a downright blow, and was altogether an unsuitable person to receive one. I beheld him not in his armor, but in his peacefullest robes. Nevertheless, drawing my conclusion merely from what I saw, it would have occurred to ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, Issue 67, May, 1863 • Various

... the horse, cattle, and sheep. They commence, indeed, as high up in the face as those of the horse, their superior extremities being opposite to the lachrymal gland; but that commencement is an apex or point varying materially in different breeds. They form, altogether, one sharp projection, and are received within breeds these processes extend nearly one-third of the length of ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt


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