projection

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=jec=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

projection, n. [L. projectio: cf. F. projection.].

•  The act of throwing or shooting forward.  [1913 Webster]
•  A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.  Davenant.  [1913 Webster]
•  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.  [1913 Webster]

Conical projection, a mode of representing the sphere, the spherical surface being projected upon the surface of a cone tangent to the sphere, the point of sight being at the center of the sphere. -- Cylindric projection, a mode of representing the sphere, the spherical surface being projected upon the surface of a cylinder touching the sphere, the point of sight being at the center of the sphere. -- Globular, Gnomonic, Orthographic, projection,etc. See under Globular, Gnomonic, etc. -- Mercator's projection, a mode of representing the sphere in which the meridians are drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude are straight lines whose distance from each other increases with their distance from the equator, so that at all places the degrees of latitude and longitude have to each other the same ratio as on the sphere itself. -- Oblique projection, a projection made by parallel lines drawn from every point of a figure and meeting the plane of projection obliquely. -- Polar projection, a projection of the sphere in which the point of sight is at the center, and the plane of projection passes through one of the polar circles. -- Powder of projection (Alchemy.), a certain powder cast into a crucible or other vessel containing prepared metal or other matter which is to be thereby transmuted into gold. -- Projection of a point on a plane (Descriptive Geom.), the foot of a perpendicular to the plane drawn through the point. -- Projection of a straight line of a plane, the straight line of the plane connecting the feet of the perpendiculars let fall from the extremities of the given line.

Syn. -- See Protuberance.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

projection, n.
1 the act or an instance of projecting; the process of being projected.
2 a thing that projects or obtrudes.
3 the presentation of an image etc. on a surface or screen.
4 a a forecast or estimate based on present trends (a projection of next year's profits). b this process.
5 a a mental image or preoccupation viewed as an objective reality. b the unconscious transfer of one's own impressions or feelings to external objects or persons.
6 Geom. the act or an instance of projecting a figure.
7 the representation on a plane surface of any part of the surface of the earth or a celestial sphere (Mercator projection).

Derivative

projectionist n. (in sense 3).

Etymology

L projectio (as PROJECT)

THESAURUS

projection

Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection, Miller projection, acting, actualization, aeronautical chart, alienation, alphabet, archery, art, astronomical chart, atlas, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, bas-relief, beetling, bellying, blame-shifting, blueprint, boldness, brouillon, buffoonery, bulge, bulging, bump, bunch, business, calculation, cartographer, cartography, cartoon, casting, celestial chart, celestial globe, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, chorographer, chorography, chucking, climatic chart, cog, comb, compensation, conic projection, contour line, contour map, conventional representation, copy, crag, cylindrical projection, dance notation, decompensation, defense mechanism, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, dereism, dereistic thinking, design, diagram, displacement, display, dissociation, draft, drama, drawing, ebauche, elevation, embossment, eminence, emotional insulation, enactment, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, esquisse, estimate, excrescence, excrescency, exemplification, exhibit, exhibition, exposition, exposure, extension, exteriorization, externalization, extrapolation, extrusion, fang, fantasizing, fantasy, figuration, figure, firing, flange, flight, flinging, forecast, gag, game plan, general reference map, gibbosity, gibbousness, globe, gnomonic projection, graph, graphic scale, grid line, ground plan, gunnery, hachure, ham, hammy acting, harrow, heaving, heliographic chart, hieroglyphic, high relief, hoke, hokum, hook, house plan, hurling, hydrographic chart, ichnography, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, impendence, impendency, impersonation, index, isolation, isoline, jaculation, jag, jut, jutting, knob, latitude, layer tint, ledge, legend, letter, limning, lobbing, logogram, logograph, longitude, low relief, map, map maker, map projection, mapper, mapping, meridian, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mummery, musical notation, musketry, negativism, notation, objectification, opening, ostentation, outcropping, outline, outlining, overacting, overcompensation, overhang, overhanging, pantomiming, parallel, patter, pattern, peak, pecten, performance, performing, personation, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, pictogram, picturization, pitching, plan, planning, playacting, playing, plot, point, political map, polyconic projection, portraiture, portrayal, prediction, prefigurement, presentation, presenting, presentment, printing, production, profile, prognostication, project, prolongation, prominence, proposal, proposition, prospectus, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, psychotaxis, rake, ratchet, rationalization, realization, reckoning, relief, relief map, rendering, rendition, representation, representative fraction, resistance, retrospective, ridge, road map, rough, salience, salient, sawtooth, scale, scenario, schema, scheme, score, script, shooting, show, showing, sinusoidal projection, skeet, skeet shooting, skeleton, sketch, slapstick, slinging, snag, snaggle, sociological adjustive reactions, special map, spine, spire, sprocket, spur, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, steeple, stunt, sublimation, substitution, swelling, syllabary, symbol, tablature, table, taking a role, terrain map, terrestrial globe, thematic map, throwing, tooth, topographer, topographic chart, topography, trajection, transportation map, trapshooting, tuberosity, tuberousness, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, varnishing day, vernissage, weather chart, weather map, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, working drawing, writing

ROGET THESAURUS

projection

Convexity

N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).

Propulsion

N propulsion, projection, propelment, vis a tergo, force from behind, push, shove, ejaculate, ejection, throw, fling, toss, shot, discharge, shy, launch, release, projectiles, ballistics, archery, propeller, screw, twin screws, turbine, jet engine, missile, projectile, ball, discus, quoit, brickbat, shot, arrow, gun, ballista, countdown, windup, shooter, shot, archer, toxophilite, bowman, rifleman, marksman, good shot, crack shot, sharpshooter, propelled, propelling, propulsive, projectile.

Representation

N representation, representment, imitation, illustration, delineation, depictment, imagery, portraiture, iconography, design, designing, art, fine arts, painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, cinematography, radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy, personation, personification, impersonation, drama, picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, X-ray photo, movie film, movie, tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV, copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, represent, representing, representative, illustrative, represented, imitative, figurative, iconic, like, graphic, cinquecento quattrocento, trecento.

VB copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, V, represent, delineate, depict, depicture, portray, take a likeness, catch a likeness, hit off, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, figure, shadow forth, shadow out, adumbrate, body forth, describe, trace, copy, mold, dress up, illustrate, symbolize, paint, carve, engrave, personate, personify, impersonate, assume a character, pose as, act, play, mimic, hold the mirror up to nature.