Other forms: projections
A projection is something that sticks out, or an estimate of the future. A rocky projection, sales projections, the projection was wrong.
A projection is not a prediction: it says what follows if the assumptions hold, which is why every honest one lists them. In psychology, projection is attributing your own feelings to somebody else. A map projection flattens a sphere and must distort something.
1nounprojectionAn estimate of what will happen.
“Sales projections for next year are much higher than we expected.”
2nounsticksSomething that sticks out.
“The climbers rested on a narrow projection halfway up the cliff.”
projection is an estimate, or a jutting part.
Latin proiectio comes from proicere, to throw forward — pro plus iacere, to throw.
Proto-Indo-European
*per-
Latin
prōiectiō
Middle French
projection
English, today
projection
From either the Middle French projection or its etymon, the Classical Latin prōiectiō (stem: prōiectiōn-), from prōiciō, equivalent to project + -ion. Compare the Modern French projection, the German Projektion, and the Italian proiezione.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA