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Webster 1913 Edition
Projection
Pro-jec′tion
,Noun.
[L.
projectio
: cf. F. projection
.] 1.
The act of throwing or shooting forward.
2.
A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.
3.
The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.
Davenant.
4.
(Persp.)
The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point;
as, the
. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each. projection
of a sphere5.
(Geog.)
Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.
Conical projection
, a mode of representing the sphere, the spherical surface being projected upon the surface of a cone tangent to the sphere, the point of sight being at the center of the sphere.
– Cylindric projection
, a mode of representing the sphere, the spherical surface being projected upon the surface of a cylinder touching the sphere, the point of sight being at the center of the sphere.
– Globular
, Gnomonic
, Orthographic
, projection
,etc. Mercator’s projection
, a mode of representing the sphere in which the meridians are drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude are straight lines whose distance from each other increases with their distance from the equator, so that at all places the degrees of latitude and longitude have to each other the same ratio as on the sphere itself.
– Oblique projection
, a projection made by parallel lines drawn from every point of a figure and meeting the plane of projection obliquely.
– Polar projection
, a projection of the sphere in which the point of sight is at the center, and the plane of projection passes through one of the polar circles.
– Powder of projection
(Alchemy.)
, a certain powder cast into a crucible or other vessel containing prepared metal or other matter which is to be thereby transmuted into gold.
– Projection of a point on a plane
(Descriptive Geom.)
, the foot of a perpendicular to the plane drawn through the point.
– Projection of a straight line of a plane
, the straight line of the plane connecting the feet of the perpendiculars let fall from the extremities of the given line.
Syn. – See
Protuberance
. Webster 1828 Edition
Projection
PROJEC'TION
,Noun.
1.
A jutting out; extension beyond something else.2.
The act of scheming; plan; scheme; design of something to be executed.3.
Plan; delineation; the representation of something; as the projection of the sphere, is a representation of the circles on the surface of the sphere. There are three principal points of projection; the stereographic, in which the eye is supposed to be placed on the surface of the sphere; the orthographic, in which the eye is supposed to be at an infinite distance; and the gnomonic, in which the eye is placed in the center of the sphere.In perspective, projection denotes the appearance or representation of an object on the perspective plane.
4.
In alchimy, the casting of a certain powder, called powder of projection, into a crucible or other vessel full of some prepared metal or other matter, which is to be thereby transmuted into gold.Definition 2024
projection
projection
English
Noun
projection (plural projections)
- Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
- The face of the cliff had many projections which are big enough for birds to nest on.
- The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
- The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
- A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
- (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself
- (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
- (cartography) 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.
- (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
- (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
- (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
- (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
Synonyms
- (something which sticks out): protuberance
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Translations
something which projects
action of projecting, throwing or propelling something
display of an image by a projector
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forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
psychology: belief that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself
photography: image cast by a translucent object
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geometry: image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions
mathematics: transformation extracting a fragment of an object
cartography: system of representing surface of the earth on a flat surface
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linear algebra: idempotent linear transformation from a vector space onto a subspace