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Noun projection has 10 senses
- projection - a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
--1 is a kind of prediction, anticipation, prevision
- projection - the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
--2 is a kind of visual communication
- project, projection - a planned undertaking
--3 is a kind of plan, program, programme
--3 has particulars: moneymaker, money-spinner, cash cow
- projection - any structure that branches out from a central support
--4 is a kind of structure, construction
--4 has particulars:
- projection - any solid convex shape that juts out from something
--5 is a kind of convex shape, convexity
--5 has particulars: | | salient; jag; bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence; spur, spine; tail, tail end; tongue, knife |
- projection - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
--6 is a kind of defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
- projection, acoustic projection, sound projection - the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality; "our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection"; "a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice"
--7 is a kind of acoustic phenomenon
- projection - the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
--8 is a kind of representation
--8 has particulars: map projection
- protrusion, projection, jut, jutting - the act of projecting out from something
--9 is a kind of change of shape
- expulsion, projection, ejection, forcing out - the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
--10 is a kind of propulsion, actuation
--10 has particulars: | | belch, belching, burp, burping, eructation; belching; coughing up; spit, spitting, expectoration; vomit, vomiting, emesis, regurgitation, disgorgement, puking |
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