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{
"term": "projection",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "an estimate or a statement of what figures, amounts, or events will be in the future, or what they were in the past, based on what is happening now",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to make **forward/backward projections** of population figures"
},
{
"text": "Sales have exceeded our projections."
},
{
"text": "Calculations are based on a projection of existing trends."
},
{
"text": "We have been making forward projections as to future profitability of the firm."
},
{
"text": "On current projections, there will be more than 13 million people over 65 iin the UK by 2030."
},
{
"text": "The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards."
},
{
"text": "They presented profit projections for the rest of the year."
}
],
"topics": ["Business"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["current", "latest", "initial"],
"verb + projection": ["make", "revise", "exceed"],
"phrases": ["base a projection on something"],
"preposition": ["on… projections", "projection about", "projection for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the act of putting an image of something onto a surface; an image that is shown in this way",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the projection of three-dimensional images on a computer screen"
},
{
"text": "laser projections"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a solid shape or object as represented on a flat surface",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "map projections"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "something that sticks out from a surface",
"examples": [
{
"text": "tiny projections on the cell"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "the act of making your voice, a sound, etc. audible (= able to be heard) at a distance",
"examples": [
{
"text": "voice projection"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "the act of imagining that somebody else is thinking the same as you and is reacting in the same way",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 7,
"definition": "the act of giving a form and structure to inner thoughts and feelings",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The idea of God is a projection of humans' need to have something greater than themselves."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/prəˈdʒekʃn/",
"audio": "pr/projection/projection__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/prəˈdʒekʃn/",
"audio": "pr/projection/projection__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (in sense (3)): from Latin projectio(n-), from proicere ‘throw forth’, from pro- ‘forth’ + jacere ‘to throw’."
}