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projection

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 10.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
    The face of the cliff had many projections that were big enough for birds to nest on.
  2. noun The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
  3. noun The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.
  4. noun The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
  5. noun A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation.
  6. noun 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.
  7. noun The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

protrusion jut jutting ejection expulsion protuberance project forcing out outjet outreach

Often followed by

of is and on in from to for into

Word family

project projected projecting projectional projections projects

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