PROJECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does projection mean? 

• PROJECTION (noun)
  The noun PROJECTION has 10 senses:

1. a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

2. the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

3. a planned undertaking

4. any structure that branches out from a central support

5. any solid convex shape that juts out from something

6. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

7. the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality

8. the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction

9. the act of projecting out from something

10. the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

  Familiarity information: PROJECTION used as a noun is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROJECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("projection" is a kind of...):

anticipation; prediction; prevision (the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The projection of an image from a film onto a screen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("projection" is a kind of...):

visual communication (communication that relies on vision)

Derivation:

project (project on a screen)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A planned undertaking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

project; projection

Hypernyms ("projection" is a kind of...):

plan; program; programme (a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "projection"):

cash cow; money-spinner; moneymaker (a project that generates a continuous flow of money)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Any structure that branches out from a central support

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("projection" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "projection"):

lug (a projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something)

tooth (one of a number of uniform projections on a gear)

tooth (something resembling the tooth of an animal)

tenon (a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint)

spike (a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur))

prong (a pointed projection)

overhang (projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else)

lobe (a rounded projection that is part of a larger structure)

boss; knob (a circular rounded projection or protuberance)

flue; fluke (flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor)

flange; rim (a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object)

drip; drip mold; drip mould ((architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway))

cornice (the topmost projecting part of an entablature)

cleat (a metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe); prevents slipping)

burr (rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting)

brim (a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat)

arm; branch; limb (any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm)

head (a projection out from one end)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Any solid convex shape that juts out from something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("projection" is a kind of...):

convex shape; convexity (a shape that curves or bulges outward)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "projection"):

salient ((military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy)

jag (a sharp projection on an edge or surface)

bulge; bump; excrescence; extrusion; gibbosity; gibbousness; hump; jut; prominence; protrusion; protuberance; swelling (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings)

acantha; spine; spur (any sharply pointed projection)

tail; tail end (any projection that resembles the tail of an animal)

knife; tongue (any long thin projection that is transient)

keel (a projection or ridge that suggests a keel)

Sense 6

Meaning:

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("projection" is a kind of...):

defence; defence mechanism; defence reaction; defense; defense mechanism; defense reaction ((psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires)

Domain category:

psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

acoustic projection; projection; sound projection

Context example:

a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice

Hypernyms ("projection" is a kind of...):

acoustic phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the production or transmission of sound)

Derivation:

project (cause to be heard)

Sense 8

Meaning:

The representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("projection" is a kind of...):

representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "projection"):

map projection (a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude)

Sense 9

Meaning:

The act of projecting out from something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

jut; jutting; projection; protrusion

Hypernyms ("projection" is a kind of...):

change of shape (an action that changes the shape of something)

Derivation:

project (extend out or project in space)

Sense 10

Meaning:

The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ejection; expulsion; forcing out; projection

Hypernyms ("projection" is a kind of...):

actuation; propulsion (the act of propelling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "projection"):

belching (the forceful expulsion of something from inside)

coughing up (the act of expelling (food or phlegm) by coughing)

expectoration; spit; spitting (the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva))

disgorgement; emesis; puking; regurgitation; vomit; vomiting (the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth)

belch; belching; burp; burping; eructation (a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth)

 Context examples 

Cystic structures containing papillary projections are also present.

(Digital Papillary Eccrine Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

WWF’s projections indicate that if the increase in production is not contained, the world will have to deal with about 550 million tonnes of the material by 2030.

(Scientists develop biodegradable plastic from cassava starch, SciDev.Net)

The scientists found that projections for the next 100 years are within 1% of previous projections for that time period; however, further into the future, they observed some significant differences.

(Antarctica's Effect on Sea Level Rise in Coming Centuries, NASA)

Issue associated with the unintended of projection of device component materials.

(Extrusion, Food and Drug Administration)

By combining information on recent extinctions, rates of species movement and projections of future climate, the scientists estimate that one in three species of plants and animals may face extinction.

(One-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50 years, National Science Foundation)

A rounded bony projection at the end of the bone.

(Condyle, NCI Thesaurus)

The virus is icosahedral in shape with characteristic star-like surface projections.

(Astroviridae, NCI Thesaurus)

The ladies had passed near it in their way along the valley, but it was screened from their view at home by the projection of a hill.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A diastereomer at C-2 and C-3 of xylose (in Fisher projection).

(Arabinose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

It is characterized by the presence of prominent villous projections of the neoplastic epithelium.

(Colorectal Filiform Serrated Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)