Projection has various meanings, but what they all have in common is that something is sent out or forward. A movie is projected onto a screen; a skilled actress projects her voice out into a large …

Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own...

PROJECTION definition: a projecting or protruding part. See examples of projection used in a sentence.

Projection is where you see in others what is really within yourself. The relative's negativity toward the patient involves a projection of the relative's own feelings of vulnerability from previous personal …

Definition of projection noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

When you push something away from a central structure, that's called projection. If you predict that the Jets will win tomorrow's game, that's a projection, too — you're pushing your mind away from the …

The projection of a film or picture is the act of projecting it onto a screen or wall. They took me into a projection room to see a picture.

There are 21 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun projection, four of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

PROJECTION meaning: 1 : an estimate of what might happen in the future based on what is happening now; 2 : something that sticks out from a surface

The company revised its projection downward (=changed its opinion to make it less hopeful).