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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

From off- +? set, used to construct the noun form of the verb to set off.

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /??f.s?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /??f.s?t/
• Verb:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?s?t/, /??f.s?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?f?s?t/, /??f.s?t/

Noun

offset (plural offsets)

1. Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.

2. (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
3. (obsolete, c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
4. (printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.

5. (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.

6. (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.

7. The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.

8. (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
9. An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
10. (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
11. A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
12. (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
13. (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.

Translations

Verb

offset (third-person singular simple present offsets, present participle offsetting, simple past and past participle offset or offsetted)

1. (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
2. (transitive) To place out of line.
3. (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).

Translations

See also

• onset

Anagrams

• set off, set-off, setoff

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ofsete

Noun

offset m (plural offsets)

1. (programming) offset (byte difference between memory addresses)
2. (printing) offset (a printing method)