projection
/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English
Meaning
noun
Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.
Archaic; Countable; Uncountable
noun
The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The face of the cliff had many projections that were big enough for birds to nest on."
- "Originally the opening had doubtless marked the projection of another road, but the scheme had come to nothing."
- "Some projections have estimated that Shah’s party is on track to secure around 184 seats in the 275-member House of Representatives."
- "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...."
- "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.'""
- "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 […]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *per-, projection, prōiectiō