different between knur vs projection

English

Etymology

Late Middle English knorre, variant of knarre; see knar (“knot on a tree trunk”).

Cognate with German Knorren (“knurl”) and Danish knor (“knurl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??/

Noun

knur (plural knurs)

1. A knurl.
2. The small wooden ball in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Runk

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o???

Verb

knur

1. imperative of knurre

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *k?norz?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knur/

Noun

knur m anim

1. boar, uncastrated male pig kept for reproduction

Declension

Further reading

• knur in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• knur in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

From either the Middle French projection or its etymon, the Classical Latin pr?iecti? (stem: pr?iecti?n-), from pr?ici?. Compare the Modern French projection, the German Projektion, and the Italian proiezione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???d??k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

projection (countable and uncountable, plural projections)

1. 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.

2. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
   1. (archaic) The throwing of materials into a crucible, hence the transmutation of metals.
3. (archaic) The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.
4. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
5. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
6. (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself
7. (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
8. (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.
9. (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
10. (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
11. (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
12. (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

Synonyms

• (something which sticks out): protuberance

Derived terms

Related terms

• project

Translations

Further reading

• projection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

Noun

projection f (plural projections)

1. projection
2. screening (of a film)

Interlingua

Noun

projection (plural projectiones)

1. projection