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Projection

Projection incorporates several HR estimates based on a variety of assumptions.


In psychoanalysis, projection is a defense mechanism where a person unconsciously attributes to other people feelings he has himself but which are too threatening to the ego to admit into his consciousness.

Webster Dictionary Meaning

1. Projection
- 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.
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