Projection vs. Displacement

Projection vs. Displacement — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Projection and Displacement

Projectionnoun

Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.

The face of the cliff had many projections that were big enough for birds to nest on.

Displacementnoun

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

Projectionnoun

The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.

Displacementnoun

The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.

Projectionnoun

The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.

Displacementnoun

(chemistry) The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.

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Projectionnoun

A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation

Displacementnoun

(fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.

Projectionnoun

(psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself

Displacementnoun

(physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.

Projectionnoun

(photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.

Displacementnoun

(grammar) The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).

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Projectionnoun

(cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions.

Displacementnoun

an event in which something is displaced without rotation

Projectionnoun

(geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.

Displacementnoun

act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

Projectionnoun

(linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.

Displacementnoun

the act of uniform movement

Projectionnoun

(mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.

Displacementnoun

(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

Projectionnoun

(category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

Displacementnoun

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

Projectionnoun

a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

Displacementnoun

to move something from its natural environment

Projectionnoun

the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

Displacementnoun

act of removing from office or employment

Projectionnoun

a planned undertaking

Projectionnoun

any structure that branches out from a central support

Projectionnoun

any solid convex shape that juts out from something

Projectionnoun

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

Projectionnoun

the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality;

our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projectiona prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice

Projectionnoun

the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction

Projectionnoun

the act of projecting out from something

Projectionnoun

the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting