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projection

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Synonyms: protection, profection, project on, provection, prosection, rejection, prosecution, production, projecting, proaction, protention

Antonyms: protection, profection, project on, provection, prosection, rejection, prosecution, production, projecting, proaction, protention

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Noun

  1. Something which [[project]]s, [[protrude]]s, [[jut]]s out, [[stick]]s out, or [[stand]]s out.
  2. The action of [[project|projecting]] or [[throw|throwing]] or [[propel|propelling]] something.
  3. {{lb|en|archaic}} The [[crisis]] or [[decisive]] [[point]] of any [[process]], especially a [[culinary]] process.
  4. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
  5. A [[forecast]] or [[prognosis]] obtained by [[extrapolation]].
  6. {{lb|en|psychology}} 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]].<!-- this is not slang, certainly not internet slang. The term has been used (a) by serious scholars (b) since before the internet existed, i.e. since 1937 and probably long before then. -->
  7. {{lb|en|photography}} The image that a [[translucent]] object casts onto another object.
  8. {{lb|en|cartography}} Any of several systems of intersecting [[line]]s that allow the curved surface of the [[earth]] to be represented on a [[flat]] [[surface]]. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions.
  9. {{lb|en|geometry}} An [[image]] of an object on a [[surface]] of fewer dimensions.
  10. {{lb|en|linear algebra}} An [[idempotent]] [[linear transformation]] which maps [[vector]]s from a [[vector space]] onto a [[subspace]].
  11. {{lb|en|mathematics}} A [[transformation]] which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
  12. {{lb|en|category theory}} A [[morphism]] from a [[categorical product]] to one of its (two) components.

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