projective
/pɹədʒˈɛktɪv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
of, relating to, or caused by a projection
adj
Of or related to projective geometry:
adj
Of or related to projective geometry:
adj
In a technical sense, general (but not necessarily so general as to be free); involving such objects:
adj
In a technical sense, general (but not necessarily so general as to be free); involving such objects:
Example Sentences
- "Hence the non-Euclidean angle is measured by one-half the logarithm of the cross-ratio of four rays. Although the Euclidean point of view has been adopted for simplicity, the final result, depending as it does only on the cross-ratio, is projective; it is therefore independent of the particular assumptions that the rays α and β are perpendicular and that the initial line bisects the angle between them."
- "The projectives suggested considerable difficulty with women and a conflict between sexual preoccupation and hostility."
- "For example, using projectives as a psychometric technique allows one to compare a person's score with those from a normative group, or with those from some relevant clinic group, or with some other clinically important criterion (e.g., response to treatment)."
- "The unimpressive evidence for validity and operational problems related to projectives led Reilly and Chao to a pessimistic conclusion regarding projectives."
- "With its origins based in the field of psychology, projectives (also referred to as projective exercises or projective techniques) when used in qualitative research are fun "assignments" most often implemented during focus groups. Their goal is to elicit deeper, more visceral feelings from respondents -- about brands, products, concepts, advertising, and so on -- viewpoints that may go unmentioned when using more direct lines of inquiry."
- "By 2.2 we see that this is a full, contravariant imbedding, and by 2.3 the image of A in (A, G) is a generating set of small projectives."
Etymology
Formed by the suffixation of prōiect- (the perfect passive participial stem of the Classical Latin prōiciō, whence the English verb project) with the English -ive, forming project + -ive; however, compare the post-Classical Latin prōiectīvus (“relating to purging”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: prōiciō
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
projectivise
projectivist
projectivity
projectivization
projectivize
biprojective
multiprojective
nonprojective
preprojective
projectively
projectivism
quasiprojective
Phrases
complex projective line
projective basis
projective frame
projective resolution
projective variety
quasi-projective
real projective plane
projective algebraic manifold