projection

n. protrusion, bulge; act of showing on a screen; act of casting or throwing; act of firing or launching; act of planning or programming

Projection can be any of:The display of an image by devices such as:Movie projectorVideo projectorOverhead projectorSlide projectorMap projection, reduces our three-dimensional planet to a flat map (Geography)Graphical projection, the production of a two-dimensional image of a higher-dimensional objectOrthographic projection, including:Plan, or floor plan viewElevation, usually a 'head-on' view of an exteriorSection, a cutaway view of the interiorAxonometric projection, including:Isometric projectionDimetric projectionTrimetric projectionOblique projection, andPerspective projection
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Noun
1. a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
(hypernym) prediction, anticipation, prevision
2. the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
(hypernym) visual communication
(derivation) project
3. a planned undertaking
(synonym) project
(hypernym) plan, program, programme
(hyponym) moneymaker, money-spinner, cash cow
4. any structure that branches out from a central support
(hypernym) structure, construction
(hyponym) arm, branch, limb
5. any solid convex shape that juts out from something
(hypernym) convex shape, convexity
(hyponym) salient
6. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
(hypernym) defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
(classification) psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine
7. the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality; "our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection"; "a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice"
(synonym) acoustic projection, sound projection
(hypernym) acoustic phenomenon
(derivation) project
8. the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
(hypernym) representation
(hyponym) map projection
9. the act of projecting out from something
(synonym) protrusion, jut, jutting
(hypernym) change of shape
(derivation) stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project
10. the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
(synonym) expulsion, ejection, forcing out
(hypernym) propulsion, actuation
(hyponym) belch, belching, burp, burping, eructation

n. projection, screening, showing

(n.)
The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.
  

(n.)
The act of throwing or shooting forward.
  

(n.)
The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.
  

(n.)
Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.
  

(n.)
A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.