projeção
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Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin prōiectiōnem (“projection”), from prōiectus (“projected”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pro‧je‧ção
Noun
projeção f (plural projeções)
- projection (something which projects outwards)
- Synonyms: proeminência, protuberância, ressalto, saliência
- (uncountable) the quality of something which projects outwards
- Synonyms: protuberância, saliência
- projection (act of projecting, throwing)
- Synonyms: arremesso, lançamento
- projection (forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation)
- projection (display of an image by a projector)
- Synonyms: exibição, projetação
- (psychology) the attribution of one’s emotions into another object or person
- (geometry) projection (image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions)
- (cartography) projection (system for representing a globe in a flat surface)
Quotations
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