Project(n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
Project(n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
Project(n.) An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
Project(v. i.) To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
Project(v. i.) To form a project; to scheme.
Project(v. t.) To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
Project(v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
Project(v. t.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.
Projected(imp. & p. p.) of Project
Projecting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Project
Projection(n.) The act of throwing or shooting forward.
Projection(n.) A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.
Projection(n.) The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.
Projection(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.
Projection(n.) Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.
Projectment(n.) Design; contrivance; projection.
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