Projection

Quick meaning: Projection is a noun meaning Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.

Meaning

Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.

More Meanings

1. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
2. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
3. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation.
4. (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
5. (psychology) 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.
6. (cartography) 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.
7. (archaic) The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.

Example Sentences

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

Originally the opening had doubtless marked the projection of another road, but the scheme had come to nothing.

Some projections have estimated that Shah’s party is on track to secure around 184 seats in the 275-member House of Representatives.

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.'"

Word Forms

• projections

Synonyms for projection

Depending on context, synonyms include protuberance, project, expulsion, jutting, protrusion, ejection.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include protrusion, jut, jutting, ejection, expulsion, protuberance.

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