projection

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
2. (countable, uncountable) The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
3. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.
4. (countable, uncountable) The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
5. (countable, uncountable) A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
6. (countable, uncountable) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own, including making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser.
7. (countable, uncountable) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
8. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
10. (countable, uncountable) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
11. (countable, uncountable) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
12. (countable, uncountable) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
13. (countable, uncountable) The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.
14. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A supposed mechanism for the transmutation of large quantities of base metals.
15. (countable, uncountable) The distance the scent of a perfume radiates off the skin.

Concepts

projection

saillie

projet

pronostic

prévision

projection cartographique

représentation plane

projection de forces

élévation

projection de puissance

estimation

protubérance

éjection

soulèvement

Synonymes

protrusion

protuberance

ledge

jut

project

prominence

planning

bulge

bump

saliency

jutting

swelling

heave

designing

ejection

acoustic projection

tumor

promontory

tumour

design

salient

map projection

sound projection

growth

salience

forcing out

spur

expulsion

promotion

prognostication

prediction

forecast

lump

overhang

layout

plan

prognosis

extent

extension

expansion

bulging

array

excrescence

estimation

estimate

jog

eminence

build-up

jute

approximation

Traductions

proyección

Projektion

proiezione

projeção

Vorsprung

projectie

projecció

προβολή

Hochrechnung

إسقاط

sortint

izdüşüm

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à français: projection

Appartenant à allemand: Projektion

Appartenant à italien: proiezione

In summary

From either the Middle French projection or its etymon, the Classical Latin prōiectiō (stem: prōiectiōn-), from prōiciō, equivalent to project + -ion. Compare the Modern French projection, the German Projektion, and the Italian proiezione.