projection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: projections
Etymology: From either the Middle French projection or its etymon, the Classical Latin prōiectiō (stem: prōiectiōn-), from prōiciō, equivalent to project + -ion. Compare the Modern French projection, the German Projektion, and the Italian proiezione.
Senses: examples: text: The face of the cliff had many projections that were big enough for birds to nest on.
synonyms: protuberance
glosses: Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
glosses: The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
glosses: The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.
glosses: The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
glosses: A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
examples: text: Projection is another mechanism of defense and is one that is utilized almost universally to explain one's minor mistakes, and in many cases the minor failures as well. By projection we place the blame for our acts upon others....
ref: 1937, John W. Vann, “To What Extent Is Reality Adjustment Concerned In The Selection Of The Flying Trainee?”, in United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 35, page 437:
text: 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.'"
ref: 1980 May 24, Judith Plaskow, “Blaming Jews for Inventing Patriarchy”, in Lilith Magazine, volume 7:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.
examples: text: 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 […]
ref: 1666, Robert Boyle, The Origine of Formes and Qualities […], page 365:
text: But yet I would that every one should understand me aright, and not count me so simple, as if I did liken or compare my Aurum Potabile with that great Stone of the Philosophers, which transmutes vast quantities of imperfect metals into most pure Gold by projection […]
ref: 1689, Johann Rudolf Glauber, translated by Christopher Packe, The Works of the Highly Experienced and Famous Chymist, John Rudolph Glauber […], page 216:
text: [Helmont] says, on another occasion, that an adept, after a few days of acquaintance, presented him with half a grain of the powder of projection, with which he transmuted nine ounces of quicksilver into pure gold.
ref: 1888, Arthur Edward Waite, Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers […], page 167:
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: A supposed mechanism for the transmutation of large quantities of base metals.
examples: text: SKIN SCENT¶ A fragrance with low projection. One which stays close to the skin because the materials used to make it are less volatile.
ref: 2021, Sarah McCartney, Samantha Scriven, The Perfume Companion […] , Frances Lincoln, →ISBN, page 283:
qualifier: perfumery
glosses: The distance the scent of a perfume radiates off the skin.
Derived terms: word: Aitoff projection
word: Babinet projection
word: first angle projection
word: front projection
word: Hammer projection
word: Mollweide projection
word: point-projection perspective
word: power projection
word: projectional → projectionally
word: projectionism
word: projectionist
word: projectionless
word: Robinson projection
word: spiny projection neuron
word: third angle projection
word: time projection chamber
word: van der Grinten projection
sense: Compound words
word: astroprojection
sense: Compound words
word: autoprojection
sense: Compound words
word: deprojection
sense: Compound words
word: eigenprojection
sense: Compound words
word: holoprojection
sense: Compound words
word: microprojection
sense: Compound words
word: misprojection
sense: Compound words
word: overprojection
sense: Compound words
word: reprojection
sense: Compound words
word: retroprojection
sense: Expressions: eponymous
word: Bonne projection
sense: Expressions: eponymous
word: Bottomley projection
sense: Expressions: eponymous
word: Fischer projection
sense: Expressions: eponymous
word: Gall-Peters projection
sense: Expressions: eponymous
word: Haworth projection
sense: Expressions: eponymous
word: Lissajous projection
sense: Expressions: eponymous
word: Littrow projection
sense: Expressions: eponymous
word: Werner projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: 3D projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: Albers projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: astral projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: axonometric projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: back projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: calligraphic projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: cordiform projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: dimetric projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: Eckert projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: first-angle projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: gnomonic projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: graphical projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: isometric projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: map projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: oblique projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: orthographic projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: parallel projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: perspective projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: projection matrix
sense: Expressions: other
word: rear projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: stereographic projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: third-angle projection
sense: Expressions: other
word: trimetric projection
Related terms: project
projectable
projective
projectment
projectome
projector
projecture