projection
pronunciation
How to pronounce projection in British English:
UK [prəˈdʒekʃn]
How to pronounce projection in American English:
US [prəˈdʒɛkʃən]
-
- Noun:
- a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
- the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
- a planned undertaking
- any structure that branches out from a central support
- any solid convex shape that juts out from something
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
- the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
- the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
- the act of projecting out from something
- the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
Word Origin
- projection (n.)
- late 15c., in alchemy, "transmutation by casting a powder on molten metal; 1550s in the cartographical sense "drawing of a map or chart according to scale," from Middle French projection, from Latin proiectionem (nominative proiectio), from past participle stem of proicere (see project (n.)). From 1590s as "action of projecting."
Example
- 1. Stereo speakers handle the sound , and hd projection keeps everything crisp .
- 2. However that projection is likely to prove overly optimistic .
- 3. The images were re-projected into an orthographic map projection .
- 4. Power projection and geopolitical strutting are best left to others .
- 5. The movies require special projection systems that generally cost about $ 80000 each to install .