What does "projection" mean?
Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
Projection
/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/ noun
noun ·Very common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
- Grammar: projection is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: a project, abrocome, acoustic projection, acting.
- Useful contrasts: apses, concealment, dents.
- Usage evidence: Let's begin practicing voice projection.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out. countable, uncountable
"The face of the cliff had many projections that were big enough for birds to nest on."
- 2 the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting wordnet
- 3 The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something. countable, uncountable
- 4 the act of projecting out from something wordnet
- 5 The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process. archaic, countable, uncountable
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- 6 any structure that branches out from a central support wordnet
- 7 The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector. countable, uncountable
- 8 the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction wordnet
- 9 A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation countable, uncountable
- 10 a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations wordnet
- 11 A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own, including making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser. countable, uncountable
"Projection is another mechanism of defense and is one that is utilized almost universally to explain one's minor mistakes, and in many cases the minor failures as well. By projection we place the blame for our acts upon others...."
- 12 a planned undertaking wordnet
- 13 The image that a translucent object casts onto another object. countable, uncountable
- 14 the projection of an image from a film onto a screen wordnet
- 15 Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions. countable, uncountable
- 16 the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality wordnet
- 17 An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions. countable, uncountable
- 18 (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else wordnet
- 19 An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace. countable, uncountable
- 20 any solid convex shape that juts out from something wordnet
- 21 A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object. countable, uncountable
- 22 A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components. countable, uncountable
- 23 The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle. countable, uncountable
- 24 A supposed mechanism for the transmutation of large quantities of base metals. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"I speak not here of Projection, whereby one part of an Aurifick Powder is said to turn I know not how many 100 or 1000 parts of an ignobler metal into silver or gold […]"
- 25 The distance the scent of a perfume radiates off the skin. countable, uncountable
"SKIN SCENT¶ A fragrance with low projection. One which stays close to the skin because the materials used to make it are less volatile."
Synonyms
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Example
"Let's begin practicing voice projection."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "projection"?
Common synonyms include: a project, abrocome, acoustic projection, acting, actualization, aculea.
How do you use "projection" in a sentence?
Let's begin practicing voice projection.
How do you pronounce "projection"?
Pronounced /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/.
Etymology
From either the Middle French projection or its etymon, the Classical Latin prōiectiō (stem: prōiectiōn-), from prōiciō, equivalent to project + -ion. Compare the Modern French projection, the German Projektion, and the Italian proiezione.