projection > define

noun

• A prediction made by extrapolating from past observations.
• The projection of an image from a film onto a screen.
• A planned undertaking.
  • synonyms: project
• Any structure that branches out from a central support.
• Any solid convex shape that juts out from something.
• Psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else. (
• The acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality.
  • usage: "our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection"; "a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice"
  • synonyms: acoustic projection, sound projection
• 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.
  • synonyms: protrusion, jut, jutting
• The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting.
  • synonyms: expulsion, ejection, forcing out

• (n.) The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.
• (n.) A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.
• (n.) The act of throwing or shooting forward.
• (n.) Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.
• (n.) The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.

PROJECTION is an approximation of future events. Usually a projection is made by extrapolating known information into the future period, considering events that could affect the outcome. See: FORECAST, BUDGET.