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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 French pressentiment, from Middle French, equivalent to pre- +? sentiment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pr??zen.t?.m?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pr??zen.t?.m?nt/

Noun

presentiment (plural presentiments)

1. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 13:

     Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children.

   • 1973, Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight:

     Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of trouble.

Synonyms

• boding
• foreboding
• forefeeling
• premonition

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French pressentiment

Noun

presentiment n (plural presentimente)

1. presentiment

Declension