Projection

Noun

 * 1) Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
 * The face of the cliff had many projections which are big enough for birds to nest on.
 * 1) The action of projecting or throwing  or propelling something.
 * 2) The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
 * 3) A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
 * 4)  A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself
 * 5)  The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
 * 6)  An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
 * 7)  A transformation of one thing into something else, e.g. applications of functions.
 * 8)  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.

Synonyms

 * (something which sticks out): protuberance

Derived terms

 * project
 * 3D projection
 * axonometric projection
 * dimetric projection
 * graphical projection
 * oblique projection
 * orthographic projection
 * parallel projection
 * perspective projection
 * isometric projection
 * trimetric projection

Adjectives for Projection
rugged; blunted; infinitesimal; gnomonic; jutting; far-reaching; sharp.

Thesaurus
Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection, Miller projection, acting, actualization, aeronautical chart, alienation, alphabet, archery, art, astronomical chart, atlas, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, bas-relief, beetling, bellying, blame-shifting, blueprint, boldness, brouillon, buffoonery, bulge, bulging, bump, bunch, business, calculation, cartographer, cartography, cartoon, casting, celestial chart, celestial globe, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, chorographer, chorography, chucking, climatic chart, cog, comb, compensation, conic projection, contour line, contour map, conventional representation, copy, crag, cylindrical projection, dance notation, decompensation, defense mechanism, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, dereism, dereistic thinking, design, diagram, displacement, display, dissociation, draft, drama, drawing, ebauche, elevation, embossment, eminence, emotional insulation, enactment, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, esquisse, estimate, excrescence, excrescency, exemplification, exhibit, exhibition, exposition, exposure, extension, exteriorization, externalization, extrapolation, extrusion, fang, fantasizing, fantasy, figuration, figure, firing, flange, flight, flinging, forecast, gag, game plan, general reference map, gibbosity, gibbousness, globe, gnomonic projection, graph, graphic scale, grid line, ground plan, gunnery, hachure, ham, hammy acting, harrow, heaving, heliographic chart, hieroglyphic, high relief, hoke, hokum, hook, house plan, hurling, hydrographic chart, ichnography, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, impendence, impendency, impersonation, index, isolation, isoline, jaculation, jag, jut, jutting, knob, latitude, layer tint, ledge, legend, letter, limning, lobbing, logogram, logograph, longitude, low relief, map, map maker, map projection, mapper, mapping, meridian, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mummery, musical notation, musketry, negativism, notation, objectification, opening, ostentation, outcropping, outline, outlining, overacting, overcompensation, overhang, overhanging, pantomiming, parallel, patter, pattern, peak, pecten, performance, performing, personation, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, pictogram, picturization, pitching, plan, planning, playacting, playing, plot, point, political map, polyconic projection, portraiture, portrayal, prediction, prefigurement, presentation, presenting, presentment, printing, production, profile, prognostication, project, prolongation, prominence, proposal, proposition, prospectus, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, psychotaxis, rake, ratchet, rationalization, realization, reckoning, relief, relief map, rendering, rendition, representation, representative fraction, resistance, retrospective, ridge, road map, rough, salience, salient, sawtooth, scale, scenario, schema, scheme, score, script, shooting, show, showing, sinusoidal projection, skeet, skeet shooting, skeleton, sketch, slapstick, slinging, snag, snaggle, sociological adjustive reactions, special map, spine, spire, sprocket, spur, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, steeple, stunt, sublimation, substitution, swelling, syllabary, symbol, tablature, table, taking a role, terrain map, terrestrial globe, thematic map, throwing, tooth, topographer, topographic chart, topography, trajection, transportation map, trapshooting, tuberosity, tuberousness, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, varnishing day, vernissage, weather chart, weather map, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, working drawing, writing

Translations

 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:, ;
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hebrew: בְּלִיטָה (blitɑ), בֶּלֶט (belet) , זיז (ziz)
 * Polish: występ
 * Portuguese:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: (image), heijastaminen (act)
 * Galician: proxección


 * German: Projektion
 * Polish: wyświetlenie, projekcja
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,


 * Hebrew: הערכה (hɑʿɑrɑḥɑ)
 * Polish: przewidywanie
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish:, heijastaminen


 * Polish: projekcja


 * Finnish: heijastuma


 * Polish: odwzorowanie, projekcja


 * Finnish: ,
 * Icelandic: ofanvarp


 * Polish: rzut, projekcja
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:


 * Polish: rzut, projekcja


 * : projection