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projection - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'projection' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Projection [ n.]
- The act of throwing or shooting forward.
- A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.
- The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.
- 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.
- Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.

Meaning of 'projection' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . projection [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
Example in sentence:
  • a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice;
  • our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection