Meaning

projecting outward.

Definitions by Sense

1. projecting outward
2. of, relating to, or caused by a projection
3. (geometry) Of or related to projective geometry:
4. (algebra) In a technical sense, general (but not necessarily so general as to be free); involving such objects:
5. (psychology) An assessment test that presents subjects with some sort of stimulus to which they react by projecting or imagining details.
6. (mathematics) A projective member of a category.
7. (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

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

For example, using projectives as a psychometric technique allows one to compare a person's score with those from a normative group, or with those from some relevant clinic group, or with some other clinically important criterion (e.g., response to treatment).

The unimpressive evidence for validity and operational problems related to projectives led Reilly and Chao to a pessimistic conclusion regarding projectives.

With its origins based in the field of psychology, projectives (also referred to as projective exercises or projective techniques) when used in qualitative research are fun "assignments" most often implemented during focus groups. Their goal is to elicit deeper, more visceral feelings from respondents -- about brands, products, concepts, advertising, and so on -- viewpoints that may go unmentioned when using more direct lines of inquiry.

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.

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

The idea behind “cheating with projectives” in a pre-Abelian category with a separating class of projectives is this: Make the arrows do the work that elements do in concrete categories.

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

Word Forms

• more projective
• most projective
• projectives

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