projection

noun15

1. •
   The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
2. •
   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. — 2026
3. •
   The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
4. •
   The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
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   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.
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   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.

   • The morality of patriarchy, Mary Daly argues, is charactrized by "a failure to lay claim to that part of the psyche that is then projected onto 'the Other.'" — 1980
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   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.
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   An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
9. •
   An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
10. •
    A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
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    A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
12. •
    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. — 2021
13. •
    The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.
14. •
    (no longer used) The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.
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    (no longer used) 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 […] — 1666