Thesaurus: projection

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1. n. The act of throwing or shooting forward.
2. n. A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.
3. n. The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.
4. 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.
5. n. Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.
6. n. a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
7. n. the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
8. n. a planned undertaking
9. n. any structure that branches out from a central support
10. n. any solid convex shape that juts out from something
11. n. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
12. n. the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality