Projection

The act of throwing or shooting forward.

A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.

The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.

The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.

Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.

a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

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

the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

any structure that branches out from a central support

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"