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noun

  • A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
  • (usually in the plural) An urban low-income housing building.

    "Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished."

  • An idle scheme; an impracticable design.

    "a man given to projects"

  • A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough
  • A projectile.
  • A projection.
  • The place from which a thing projects.

verb

  • To extend beyond a surface.
  • To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
  • To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
  • To make plans for; to forecast.

    "The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007."

  • To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
  • To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
  • To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
  • To draw straight lines from a fixed point through every point of any body or figure, and let these fall upon a surface so as to form the points of a new figure.

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