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Projection

noun

A prediction made by extrapolating from past observations.

The projection of an image from a film onto a screen.

A planned undertaking. Synonym: project.

Any structure that branches out from a central support.

Any solid convex shape that juts out from something.

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else.

The acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality. Synonyms: acoustic projection, sound projection. "A prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice"

The representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction.

The act of projecting out from something. Synonyms: jut, jutting, protrusion.

10.

The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting. Synonyms: ejection, expulsion, forcing out.

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"Projection" Quotes from Famous Books

... least fifty miles across, stretching out from the coast and possibly destined to float away at some time in the future. The soundings—roughly, 200 fathoms at the landward side and 1300 fathoms at the seaward side—suggested that this mighty projection was afloat. Seals were plentiful. We saw large numbers on the pack and several on low parts of the barrier, where the slope was easy. The ship passed through large schools of seals swimming from the barrier to the pack ...

— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton

... of the Bradley Patent Imperishable Army Sausage, we find that it is eminently suitable for certain well-defined purposes. If it should be introduced to warfare as a missile, we could calculate with precision that its projection from a gun into a besieged town would instantly induce the garrison to evacuate the place and quit; but the barbarity which would be involved in subjecting even an enemy to direct contact with the Bradley Sausage is so frightful that we shrink from recommending ...

— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)

... tottering cabinet. This was the death of Charles Townshend, who suddenly expired on the 4th of September. But before his death, there were signs of a dissolution of the ministry, and Townshend was actually engaged in the projection of a new administration. Lord Northington and General Conway had both expressed a wish to resign, and the Duke of Grafton showed a greater disposition for pleasure than for business, whence negociations were opened by Townshend ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... luminous fascicle by means of a projector. As for using a luminous source placed in the car of a balloon, that cannot be thought of in the present state of aeronautic science; the continual rotation of the balloon around its axis would render the projection and reception of the signals ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 • Various

... crutch, or, as it is called by saddlers, the near head, is a more or less upright projection which is placed on the near side of the pommel, in order to give support to the rider's right leg. The slope and bearing surface of this near head should be regulated, so that (as we shall see further on) the lower part of the rider's ...

— The Horsewoman - A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. • Alice M. Hayes

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