1. • noun - a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
   • noun - the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
   • noun - a planned undertaking
   • noun - any structure that branches out from a central support
   • noun - any solid convex shape that juts out from something
   • noun - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
   • noun - the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
   • noun - the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
   • noun - the act of projecting out from something
   • noun - the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
2. • The act of projecting or the condition of being projected.
   • A thing or part that extends outward beyond a prevailing line or surface: spiky projections on top of a fence; a projection of land along the coast.
   • A plan for an anticipated course of action: “facilities [that] are vital to the projection of U.
   • A prediction or an estimate of something in the future, based on present data or trends.
   • The process of projecting a filmed image onto a screen or other viewing surface.
   • An image so projected.
   • The image of a geometric figure reproduced on a line, plane, or surface.
   • A system of intersecting lines, such as the grid of a map, on which part or all of the globe or another spherical surface is represented as a plane surface.
   • Psychology.
   • The attribution of one’s own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others: “Even trained anthropologists have been guilty of unconscious projection—of clothing the subjects of their research in theories brought with them into the field” (Alex Shoumatoff).
   • The attribution of one’s own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt.

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