projection

noun

1. 1

   Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.

   “The face of the cliff had many projections that were big enough for birds to nest on.”

2. 2

   The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.

3. 3

   The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.

4. 4

   The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.

5. 5

   A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation

6. 6

   A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself

7. 7

   The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.

8. 8

   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. 9

   An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.

10. 10

    An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.

11. 11

    A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.

12. 12

    A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.