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# projection

«projection» in Mova's school dictionary: **an image shown on a screen or wall by a projector** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (projection, projections)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A projection is an image shown on a screen or wall by a projector. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/#m1)

2) A projection is a guess about the future based on numbers now: a sales projection. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/#m2)

3) A projection is a part that sticks out from something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/#m3)

4) (maths and geography) A map projection is a way of drawing the round Earth on a flat map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/#m4)

5) (psychology) Projection is blaming others for feelings you have yourself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In class the teacher uses a projector to make a projection on the board. In maths and data lessons projections predict future numbers. In geography, every flat map uses a projection and so stretches some places (on many world maps Greenland looks much bigger than it is).

### examples

- The projection on the wall was blurry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/#x1)
- The teacher adjusted the projection. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/#x2)
- The projection says the town will grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/#x3)
- A rock projection made a shelter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/#x4)
- The Mercator projection makes Greenland look huge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/#x5)
- Population projections help plan schools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/#x6)
- Voice projection helps actors be heard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/#x7)
- The film projection started late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/#x8)

### note

Countable. Verb: project (pro-JECT); noun «project» (PRO-ject) is a piece of work. A projection is an estimate, not a fact. In maths, «if it grows by 10 each year, the projection after 3 years is +30».

### In the corpora

- [No projection is wrong and none is perfect; the clever question is always what this map was made for.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «projection» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/projection/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.