PROJECTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does projecting mean? 

• PROJECTING (adjective)
  The adjective PROJECTING has 1 sense:

1. extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

  Familiarity information: PROJECTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROJECTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

Synonyms:

jutting; projected; projecting; protruding; relieved; sticking; sticking out

Context example:

a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck

Similar:

protrusive (thrusting outward)

 Context examples 

A benign polypoid neoplasm of an epithelial lining projecting into a lumen or cavity.

(Experimental Organism Benign Polyp, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

In the promotion of this object she was zealously active, as far as her ability reached; and missed no opportunity of projecting weddings among all the young people of her acquaintance.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Interneuron may also refer to neurons whose axons remain within a particular brain region as contrasted with projection neurons which have axons projecting to other brain regions.

(Interneuron, NCI Thesaurus)

A projecting part of a device that allows it to be secured through an opening.

(Connector Pin Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A projection or projecting structure, or ridge, especially one surmounting a bone or its border.

(Crest, NCI Thesaurus)

The silent squire said nothing, but he took up the rope, and, having examined it, he tied one end firmly round a projecting rock.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A benign polypoid neoplasm of the endometrium projecting into the endometrial cavity.

(Endometrial Polyp, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An adenocarcinoma in which the tumor elements are arranged as finger-like processes or as a solid spherical nodule projecting from an epithelial surface.

(Papillary Cystadenocarcinoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

On the other side of the bushes a shoe was projecting.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The inner mitochondrial membrane encloses a fluid-filled matrix and is elaborately folded with shelf-like cristae projecting into the matrix.

(Inner Mitochondrial Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)