projection
noun
uk/prəˈdʒek.ʃən/us/prəˈdʒek.ʃən/projectionnoun(CALCULATION)
C1[C]
acalculationorguessabout thefuturebasedoninformationthat you have:
预测,推测Thecompanyhasfailedtoachievelast year'ssalesprojections by 30percent.这家公司未能达到去年的预期销售目标,还差30%。
Spending was well below projections.
Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- inkling
- instinct
- intuit
- intuition
- intuitive
- presage
- prescience
- prescient
- prophecy
- prophesy
- second-guess
- the writing is on the wallidiom
- unreasoning
- visionary
projectionnoun(IMAGE)
C1[CorU]
theactofprojectingafilmor animageonto ascreenorwall, or thefilmorimageitself:
A fewchairsandrearprojectionssuppliedthescene.
Photography
- airbrush
- analogue
- aperture
- bokeh
- camera
- camera obscura
- expose
- glossy
- grain
- high-resolution
- hologram
- holographic
- holography
- kinetoscope
- pap
- pic
- picture
- PillCam
- pin-up
- pinhole camera
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Cinema - general words
projectionnoun(STICKING OUT)
[C]
something thatprojectsfrom asurfaceor above theedgeof something
凸出物;隆起物Protruding and sticking out
- beetling
- bristly
- bug out
- bulbous
- bulge
- jutting
- ledge
- lug
- male
- outcrop
- overhang
- overhanging
- peek
- project
- protrusion
- protuberant
- proud
- stick
- stick out
- stick up
projectionnoun(GEOMETRY)
[C]art,architecture,mathematicsspecialized
adrawingorimagethatrepresentsaline,figure, orsolidshownon aparticularplane(= aflatorlevelsurfacethatcontinuesin alldirections):
CTscanscan be reformatted inmultipleprojections,regardlessof theoriginalplaneofscanning.
Geometry: describing angles, lines & orientations
- acute
- angle of incidence
- angularity
- antinode
- asymptote
- asymptotic
- bisector
- circuitous
- equilateral
- indirect
- non-planar
- noncollinear
- obliquely
- obtuse
- orthogonal
- osculate
- prominent
- rectilinear
- reflection
- sine
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Tables, graphs & diagrams
projectionnoun(PSYCHOLOGY)
[CorU]psychologyspecialized
theactofimaginingthat someoneelsefeelsaparticularemotionorwantssomething when infactit is you whofeelsthis way; anexampleof thisact:
Projection is where youseeinotherswhat is really within yourself.
The relative'snegativitytoward thepatientinvolvesa projection of the relative's ownfeelingsofvulnerabilityfrompreviouspersonaldistress.
[CorU]psychologyspecialized
theactofexpressingyourfeelingsandwishes; anexampleof thisact:
the projection ofrepressedfeelings
The things wethinkweseeobjectivelyare really projections ofouremotions,memories, andthoughts.
Science of psychology & psychoanalysis
- analyse
- analysis
- behavioural science
- behaviourist
- cathartic
- certify
- committal
- Freudian
- profiler
- psych
- psychiatric
- psychic
- psychical
- psycho
- psychological profiling
- psychologist
- self-discovery
- superego
- transference
- unconscious