projection

projection is a 10-letter English word with 15 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of throwing or shooting forward. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 26 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 26 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of throwing or shooting forward.
2. noun. A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.
3. noun. The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.
6. noun. the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

   Synonyms: ejection, expulsion

7. noun. the act of projecting out from something

   Synonyms: jut, jutting, protrusion

8. noun. any structure that branches out from a central support
9. noun. the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
10. noun. a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
11. noun. a planned undertaking

    Synonyms: project

12. noun. the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
13. noun. 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"

14. noun. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
15. noun. any solid convex shape that juts out from something

Synonyms

ejection, expulsion, jut, jutting, protrusion, project

Common word forms

projections, projectional

Words from these letters

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