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say it: pruh-JEK-shuhn
projection is a noun meaning "a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations". It carries 10 recorded senses.
a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
psychiatry
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”
the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
the act of projecting out from something
the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for projection come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.