projection

noun projections

1. countable, uncountable Something 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.

   Similar: protuberance, appendix

2. countable, uncountable The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
3. archaic, countable, uncountable The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.
4. countable, uncountable The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
5. countable, uncountable A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation. Some projections have estimated that Shah’s party is on track to secure around 184 seats in the 275-member House of Representatives.
6. countable, uncountable A 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. Projection is another mechanism of defense and is one that is utilized almost universally to explain one's minor mistakes, and in many cases the minor failures as well. By projection we place the blame for our acts upon others....
7. countable, uncountable The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
8. countable, uncountable Any 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. countable, uncountable An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
10. countable, uncountable An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
11. countable, uncountable A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
12. countable, uncountable A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
13. countable, uncountable The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.
14. countable, obsolete, uncountable A supposed mechanism for the transmutation of large quantities of base metals. I speak not here of Projection, whereby one part of an Aurifick Powder is said to turn I know not how many 100 or 1000 parts of an ignobler metal into silver or gold […]
15. countable, uncountable The distance the scent of a perfume radiates off the skin. SKIN SCENT¶ A fragrance with low projection. One which stays close to the skin because the materials used to make it are less volatile.