Projection vs. Prediction

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

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.

Predictionnoun

A statement of what will happen in the future.

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." Yogi Berra or Robert Storm Petersen (in translation from Danish)

Projectionnoun

The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.

Predictionnoun

A probability estimation based on statistical methods.

Projectionnoun

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

Predictionnoun

the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

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Projectionnoun

A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation

Predictionnoun

a statement made about the future

Projectionnoun

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

Projectionnoun

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

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.

Projectionnoun

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

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Projectionnoun

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

Projectionnoun

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

Projectionnoun

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

Projectionnoun

a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

Projectionnoun

the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

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