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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

English

Etymology

augur +? -y, or from Middle English augurie, from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.?j?.?i/

Noun

augury (countable and uncountable, plural auguries)

1. A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
2. (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
   • 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe

     In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.

   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:

     No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring!

3. An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:augury.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:omen

Hyponyms

Related terms

• augur

Translations