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

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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

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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. Andrew Cuomo:

   Now, people can speculate. People can guess. I think next week, I think two weeks, I think a month, im out of that business because we all failed at that business. Right? All the early national experts. Heres my projection model. Heres my projection model. They were all wrong. They were all wrong.

2. El Hillo:

   There are a million people displaced this year and the projection is another million will be displaced inside Syria between now and the end of the year if the violence continues to escalate, so it is safe to assume that more people will be heading to Europe, and rightly so, because the countries that have so generously been hosting these refugees – Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt - are also reaching  - in the case of some of them - a breaking point.

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. Christiana Figueres:

   The good news of all those climate change plans is that they actually do cut into the business-as-usual projection of greenhouse gas emissions as well as temperature, we are no longer heading to a world that would increase temperatures by 4, 5 or sometimes even 6 degrees( Celsius) according to some studies, which is what we had a few years ago. But, rather, with full implementation of these climate change plans, we could be heading to a future that would increase the global temperature by 2.7 or 3 degrees.

5. President Juan Manuel Santos:

   The projection is that we could end up having 600,000 cases.