projection

Noun

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

• the act of projecting out from something

• the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction

• the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
  • our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection
    
  • a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice
    

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

• any solid convex shape that juts out from something

• any structure that branches out from a central support

• a planned undertaking

• the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

• a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  expulsion , ejection , forcing out , protrusion , jut , jutting , acoustic projection , sound projection , project