projection

1. n. The act of throwing or shooting forward. Source: opted

2. n. A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else. Source: opted

3. n. The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

5. n. Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane. Source: opted

6. n. a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations Source: wordnet

7. n. the projection of an image from a film onto a screen Source: wordnet

8. n. a planned undertaking Source: wordnet

9. n. any structure that branches out from a central support Source: wordnet

10. n. any solid convex shape that juts out from something Source: wordnet

11. n. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else Source: wordnet

12. n. the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality Source: wordnet

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