Projective

Quick meaning: Projective is an adjective meaning projecting outward.

Meaning

projecting outward.

More Meanings

1. of, relating to, or caused by a projection
2. (geometry) Of or related to projective geometry:
3. (algebra) In a technical sense, general (but not necessarily so general as to be free); involving such objects:
4. (psychology) An assessment test that presents subjects with some sort of stimulus to which they react by projecting or imagining details.
5. (mathematics) A projective member of a category.
6. (linguistics) A statement about a conditional or potential state of affairs, as opposed to one about a situation that actually exists or existed.

Example Sentences

In particular our assumptions hold if B is an abelian category with enough projectives.

There was no basis for expecting differences in the frequency of projectives or turnabouts as a function of partner.

The projectives suggested considerable difficulty with women and a conflict between sexual preoccupation and hostility.

By 2.2 we see that this is a full, contravariant imbedding, and by 2.3 the image of A in (A, G) is a generating set of small projectives.

Word Forms

• projectives

Synonyms for projective

Depending on context, synonyms include outstanding, prominent, bulging, exserted, extuberant, jutting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include predictive, forward-looking, futuristic, extrapolative, prospective, anticipatory.

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