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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

... act of raising from a lower to a higher degree; a projection of a building or other object on a plane ...

— Carpentry for Boys • J. S. Zerbe

... externally visible in the first story; and, besides being so thickly riven with iron bolts as to suggest resistance to battering-rams, they were protected by cornices of marble, handsomely executed, and of such bold projection as to assure visitors well informed of the people that the rich man who resided there was a Sadducee in ...

— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace

... way down again. At the bottom of the pit-valley they found the metal projection, so like a mighty steering wheel. Sadau's torch lay there, extinguished, and Parr still carried a radium lighter in the pocket of his shabby shorts. He made a ...

— The Devil's Asteroid • Manly Wade Wellman

... knitting-needle with one end fastened in the middle of a silver quarter. The latter, it developed, had a hole in it, through which he drew the strand of hair, and then wrapped it with an angry tightness about the long projection. ...

— Linda Condon • Joseph Hergesheimer

... doctor, doggedly. "That's no injury from any rock or stone or projection. It's the result of a particularly fierce blow dealt with great force by some blunt instrument—a life preserver, a club, a heavy stick. It's no use ...

— The Borough Treasurer • Joseph Smith Fletcher

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