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Projection

Noun

Definitions

1.NounSomething which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
"The face of the cliff had many projections that were big enough for birds to nest on."
2.NounThe action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
3.NounThe crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.
4.NounThe display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
5.NounA forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation.
6.NounA 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.
7.NounThe image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
8.NounAny 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.
9.NounAn image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
10.NounAn idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
11.NounA transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
12.NounA morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
13.NounThe preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.
14.NounA supposed mechanism for the transmutation of large quantities of base metals.
15.NounThe distance the scent of a perfume radiates off the skin.
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