Synonyms for PROJECTION
prəˈdʒɛk ʃənpro·jec·tion

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

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, projection, 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, projection, 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, projection, 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, 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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How to use PROJECTION in a sentence?

1. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo:

   We'll do a financial projection in a few days that says we are going to have to make significant cuts to the budget because we were all depending on federal funding.

2. Henry Shilling:

   Total green bond issuance now looks likely to exceed our initial projection of $50 billion in 2016 and could potentially reach $70 billion ... assuming volume is sustained throughout the rest of 2016.

3. Wang Tao:

   Brent oil may break a resistance at $48.80 per barrel and rise more to $49.53, as indicated by its wave pattern and a Fibonacci projection analysis, support is at $47.51, the 61.8 percent Fibonacci retracement on the rise from $45.59 to $50.62, a break below which will lead to a further loss to $46.78, the 76.4 percent retracement.

4. 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.

5. Scott Pace:

   It's not just our machines or our people that we send into space. It's our values. It's who we are. It's things like rule of law, democracy, human rights, and a free market economy i see Artemis and our human expansion into space as a projection of our American values. It's about diplomatically shaping this new domain that we depend on.