projection

Meaning

Noun

• Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
• The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
• 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
• A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself
• The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
• 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.
• An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
• An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
• A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
• A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

Related

Similar words

• protuberance

Origin

• From either the Middle French projection or its etymon, the Classical Latin prōiectiō (stem: prōiectiōn-), from prōiciō. Compare the Modern French projection, the German Projektion, and the Italian proiezione.