Meaning

15 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Vorsprung, Auskragung

    вы́ступvýstup, выступа́ющая частьvystupájuščaja častʹ

    ви́ступvýstup

    any solid convex shape that juts out from something

  2. (countable, uncountable)The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.

    Projizieren, Projektion

    the act of projecting out from something

  3. (countable, uncountable)The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.

    Projektion

    прое́кцияproékcija

    проє́кціяprojékcija

  4. (countable, uncountable)A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation.

    Prognose, Vorhersage

    прогно́зprognóz

    прогно́зprohnóz

  5. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Projektion

  6. (countable, uncountable)The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.

    Projektion

    the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

  7. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Kartenprojektion, Projektion

  8. (countable, uncountable)An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.

    Projektion

  9. (countable, uncountable)An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.

    Projektion, Projektor

  10. (countable, uncountable)A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.

    Projektion

  11. (countable, uncountable)A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

  12. (countable, uncountable)The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.

Examples

24 sentences
  1. What projection is this planisphere in?

    CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  2. Tom claims he can do astral projection.

    CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · soliloquist · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  3. Sami has never seen a projection room.

    CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · OsoHombre · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  4. Is the soul a projection from somewhere else?

  5. The first projection is coming up in a minute.

    deGleich kommt die erste Hochrechnung. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
something which projects:
display of an image by a projector:
forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation:
Русский
By meaning 3
something which projects:
display of an image by a projector:
forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
something which projects:
action of projecting, throwing or propelling something:
forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation:
cartography: system of representing surface of the earth on a flat surface:
linear algebra: idempotent linear transformation from a vector space onto a subspace:

Origin

From either the Middle French projection or its etymon, the Classical Latin prōiectiō (ste

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

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

projection — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto