projection

IPA: prʌdʒˈɛkʃʌn

Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
(archaic) The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.
The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
(psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own. This includes making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser.
(photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
(cartography) 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.
(geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
(linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
(mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
(category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
(grammar) The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.
(alchemy, obsolete) A supposed mechanism for the transmutation of large quantities of base metals.

Examples of "projection" in Sentences

Media projection is a probaganda for her to make more and more non-sense.
"The answer to the first question (Will others like it?) requires people to start with their own product preferences, which we call projection," write authors Caglar Irmak
The projectors of the private bank in 1714, not only reprinted this pamphlet bearing date 1688, but they prepared a separate scheme of their own which they termed a projection for a bank of credit founded on land security. 32 The presentation of the petition of the projectors for incorporation produced considerable discussion, in which the public to some extent participated, through the various pamphlets then published by the disputants. 33