projection
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
projection/prəˈʤekʃn/
▶noun
- 1 an estimate or forecast based on present trends.
- 2 the projecting of an image, sound, etc.
- 3 the presentation or promotion of someone or something in a particular way.
■ a mental image viewed as reality.
- 4 the unconscious transfer of one's own desires or emotions to another person.
- 5 a protruding thing.
- 6 a map or diagram made by projecting a given figure, area, etc.
– derivatives
projectionist noun.
projectionist noun.
'projection' also found in these Oxford entries:
Adam's apple
- angle
- azimuthal projection
- back-projection
- barb
- beak
- boast
- cam
- canard
- canopy
- celestial equator
- cleat
- conical projection
- coracoid
- corbel
- cornice
- cornu
- coronoid process
- cover
- cutwater
- denticle
- devil ray
- drip
- elevation
- eminence
- filmstrip
- fimbria
- fin
- hamerkop
- hamulus
- haustorium
- hip
- hobnail
- horn
- introjection
- jag
- joggle
- jugum
- knuckle
- lantern slide
- lug
- malleolus
- marquee
- Mercator projection
- mortise
- nipple
- odontoid
- orthographic projection
- orthography
- osteophyte
