Meaning of projection | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out
2. Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
   countable, uncountable
3. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something
4. something that is thrown, usually as a weapon. projektiel قَذيفَه метално оръжие projétil střela das Geschoß projektil βλήμαproyectil viskekeha, mürsk موشک ammus projectile לְהַשלִיך अस्त्र lövedék proyektil skeyti, skot proiettile 発射体 발사체 sviedinys, šovinys, raketa lādiņš; šāviņš; raķete pelancar projectielprosjektilpocisk يو ډول اسلحه projéctil proiectil снаряд strela izstrelek projektil projektil จรวด mermi, patlayıcı maddeler 射彈 реактивний снаряд; куля ميزائل vật có thể bắn ra 射弹
   usually
5. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
   countable, uncountable
6. The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process
7. projeksie قَذْف хвърляне projeção projekce der Wurf fremvisning προβολή, ρίψηproyección projitseerimine پرتاب projektio projectionהשלכה प्रक्षेप kilövés proyeksi e-ð sem skagar fram; kast, skot proiezione 発射 발사 metimas, išsikišimas projektēšana; projicēšana; izvirzījums unjuran uitstekend deel, raming, projectieutskyting; tapp, projisering, framvisning på lerret rzut, występ غورځول،اچول projecção proiecţie проектирование; бросание; выступ projekcia načrt; projekcija projekcija projektering, p...
8. The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
9. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector
10. a machine for projecting films, slides or transparencies onto a screen. a slide projector; an overhead projector (for transparencies). projektor جِهاز لِعَرْض الأفْلام السّينمائِيَّه проекционен апарат projetor projektor der Projektor filmfremviser; lysbilledapparat; overhead-projektor μηχανή προβολής proyector projektor پروژکتور projektori projecteurמקרן प्रक्षेपक (dia-, írás-) vetítő proyektor sÿningarvél proiettore 映写機 투영기, 영사기 projektorius projektors projektor projectorframviser; overhead...
11. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
    countable, uncountable
12. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
13. The act of projecting or the condition of being projected.
14. A thing or part that extends outward beyond a prevailing line or surface: spiky projections on top of a fence; a projection of land along the coast.
15. 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
16. The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
    countable, uncountable
17. A plan for an anticipated course of action: "facilities [that] are vital to the projection of U.S. force ... in the Pacific" (Alan D. Romberg).
18. 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
19. A prediction or estimate of something in the future, based on present data or trends.
20. An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
    countable, uncountable
21. The process of projecting an image onto a screen or other surface for viewing.
22. An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
    countable, uncountable
23. Mathematics The image of a geometric figure reproduced on a line, plane, or surface.
    Mathematics
24. A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
    countable, uncountable
25. 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.
26. A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
    countable, uncountable
27. The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.
    countable, uncountable
28. A supposed mechanism for the transmutation of large quantities of base metals.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
29. The distance the scent of a perfume radiates off the skin.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“The face of the cliff had many projections that were big enough for birds to nest on.”

“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....”

“The morality of patriarchy, Mary Daly argues, is charactrized by "a failure to lay claim to that part of the psyche that is then projected onto 'the Other.'"”

“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 […]”

“But yet I would that every one should understand me aright, and not count me so simple, as if I did liken or compare my Aurum Potabile with that great Stone of the Philosophers, which transmutes vast quantities of imperfect metals into most pure Gold by projection […]”

“[Helmont] says, on another occasion, that an adept, after a few days of acquaintance, presented him with half a grain of the powder of projection, with which he transmuted nine ounces of quicksilver into pure gold.”

“SKIN SCENT¶ A fragrance with low projection. One which stays close to the skin because the materials used to make it are less volatile.”

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