Synonyms for projection
prəˈdʒɛk ʃənpro·jec·tion

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1. projectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   protuberance

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. projection

   Synonyms:
   protuberance, prominence, convexity, propulsion, emission

   Antonyms:
   recess, cavity, concavity, return, indentation, hollow, attraction, recoil, rebound, ricochet, reaction

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. projectionnoun

   a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

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

2. projectionnoun

   the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

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

3. project, projectionnoun

   a planned undertaking

   Synonyms:
   forcing out, protrusion, labor, ejection, jut, undertaking, task, sound projection, jutting, project, expulsion, acoustic projection

4. projectionnoun

   any structure that branches out from a central support

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

5. projectionnoun

   any solid convex shape that juts out from something

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

6. projectionnoun

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

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

7. projection, acoustic projection, sound projectionnoun

   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"

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

8. projectionnoun

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

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

9. protrusion, projection, jut, juttingnoun

   the act of projecting out from something

   Synonyms:
   expulsion, protrusion, prominence, gibbousness, jut, ejection, jutting, extrusion, bump, bulge, protuberance, gibbosity, project, acoustic projection, hump, forcing out, sound projection, swelling, excrescence

10. expulsion, projection, ejection, forcing outnoun

    the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

    Synonyms:
    jutting, ejection, extrusion, riddance, jut, forcing out, protrusion, sound projection, project, exclusion, expulsion, acoustic projection

Matched Categories

1. • Convex Shape
   • Defense Mechanism
   • Plan
   • Prediction
   • Propulsion
   • Psychiatry
   • Representation
   • Structure
   • Visual Communication

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. projectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   propulsion, throwing

2. projectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   planning, designing, contriving

3. projectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   prominence, protuberance, bulge, process

4. projectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   plan, delineation, map

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "projection":

   projections, screening, forecast, projected, protrusion, projector, forecasting, projecting, prediction, doo, forecasts, outgoing, outbound, exhibition

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1. Ashton Carter:

   It has been disappointingly slow, so I'm reluctant to make a time projection, i am certain it will fall, and we will assist.

2. H.W. Mann:

   What's going on out there is a projection of what's going on in here

3. Camille Paglia:

   Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their evil look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.

4. Van Aalst:

   In this case, [ the projection for next year is ] possibly worse because, year by year, if the trend so far is that the climate is increasing, the risk will continue to grow. So, if anything, we're expecting a higher chance of this happening next year than this year. But it's basically a one-over-400 chance every single year.

5. Kenny Jacobs:

   Michael has said we'll get to 20 percent within a five year period but so far we're ahead of that projection.