Definition of projection
- n. - The act of throwing or shooting forward.
- n. - A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a
building; an extension beyond something else.
- n. - The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is
planned; contrivance; design; plan.
- n. - 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.
- n. - Any method of representing the surface of the earth
upon a plane.