Word: projection Part of Speech: noun 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. Pronunciation: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/ 1. Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The face of the cliff had many projections that were big enough for birds to nest on. Example: Originally the opening had doubtless marked the projection of another road, but the scheme had come to nothing. 2. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 4. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Some projections have estimated that Shah’s party is on track to secure around 184 seats in the 275-member House of Representatives. 6. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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.... Example: 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.'" 7. The image that a translucent object casts onto another object. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components. Labels: countable, uncountable 13. The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle. Labels: countable, uncountable 14. A supposed mechanism for the transmutation of large quantities of base metals. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: 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 […] Example: 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 […] 15. The distance the scent of a perfume radiates off the skin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: SKIN SCENT¶ A fragrance with low projection. One which stays close to the skin because the materials used to make it are less volatile.