projection

1. (archaic) The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.archaiccountableuncountable

2. (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own, including making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser.Examples: "Projection is another mechanism of defense and is one that is utilized almost universally to explain one's minor mistakes, and in many cases the minor failures as well. By projection we place the blame for our acts upon others...."; "The morality of patriarchy, Mary Daly argues, is charactrized by "a failure to lay claim to that part of the psyche that is then projected onto 'the Other.'""countableuncountable

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

4. (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.countableuncountable

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

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