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projection

Dictionary definition · projection

noun

  1. a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
  2. the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
  3. a planned undertaking
  4. any structure that branches out from a central support
  5. any solid convex shape that juts out from something
  6. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
  7. the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality"our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection"
  8. the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
  9. the act of projecting out from something
  10. the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).