Definition of projective in English:
projective
adjective prəˈdʒɛktɪvprəˈdʒɛktɪv
1Geometry
Relating to or derived by projection.
projective transformations
Example sentencesExamples
- In these Brianchon proved several further important results in the projective study of conics.
- Choice of the proper projective coordinate system permits the reduction of these power series to simple canonical forms.
- Later on he looked at such semigroups in more abstract settings and produced some further beautiful results characterising projective mappings and certain geometric objects.
- Further collaboration with Lie followed and they worked on an investigation of W-curves, curves invariant under a group of projective transformations.
- In it he introduced homogeneous coordinates and also discussed geometric transformations, in particular projective transformations.
- 1.1 (of a property of a figure) unchanged by projection.
Example sentencesExamples
- As we have indicated above, Guccia's work was on geometry, in particular Cremona transformations, classification of curves and projective properties of curves.
- In the second he considers a certain class of surfaces and expresses characteristic properties of these surfaces in terms of standard projective elements.
2Psychology
Relating to the unconscious transfer of one's desires or emotions to another person.
the projective contents of wish fantasies
Example sentencesExamples
- People in the environment may invalidate the client inadvertently, partly as a result of projective identification by the client with borderline personality disorder of negative parts of the self on to significant others.
- He described the blurring of boundaries into a ‘marital joint personality,’ which occurs through projective identification.
- Repressions of the dark aspects of our histories involve projective burdens for our children.
- 2.1 Relating to the unconscious expression or introduction of one's impressions or feelings.
Example sentencesExamples
- You can do this by doing a projective style of interviewing that goes deeper than asking applicants about their backgrounds and what they would do in various hypothetical situations.
- This provides a way of understanding how the concept of the therapist's projective identification works in practice, that is, how the therapist can be in touch with emotional states in the patient of which the patient is hardly aware.
Derivatives
adverb
The Steiner theorem states that the two pencils by which a conic is projected from two of its points are projectively related.
Example sentencesExamples
- Thus, there does not appear to be evidence that willingness to admit to cocaine use is directly linked to either subjectively or projectively expressed comfort with the survey.
- When the same questions were asked projectively and subjectively, the questions alternated from projective to subjective.
Definition of projective in US English:
projective
adjectiveprəˈjektivprəˈdʒɛktɪv
1Geometry
Relating to or derived by projection.
projective transformations
Example sentencesExamples
- Choice of the proper projective coordinate system permits the reduction of these power series to simple canonical forms.
- In these Brianchon proved several further important results in the projective study of conics.
- Later on he looked at such semigroups in more abstract settings and produced some further beautiful results characterising projective mappings and certain geometric objects.
- Further collaboration with Lie followed and they worked on an investigation of W-curves, curves invariant under a group of projective transformations.
- In it he introduced homogeneous coordinates and also discussed geometric transformations, in particular projective transformations.
- 1.1 (of a property of a figure) unchanged by projection.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the second he considers a certain class of surfaces and expresses characteristic properties of these surfaces in terms of standard projective elements.
- As we have indicated above, Guccia's work was on geometry, in particular Cremona transformations, classification of curves and projective properties of curves.
2Psychology
Relating to the unconscious transfer of one's own desires or emotions to another person.
the projective contents of wish fantasies
Example sentencesExamples
- He described the blurring of boundaries into a ‘marital joint personality,’ which occurs through projective identification.
- People in the environment may invalidate the client inadvertently, partly as a result of projective identification by the client with borderline personality disorder of negative parts of the self on to significant others.
- Repressions of the dark aspects of our histories involve projective burdens for our children.
- 2.1 Relating to or exploiting the unconscious expression or introduction of one's impressions or feelings.
Example sentencesExamples
- This provides a way of understanding how the concept of the therapist's projective identification works in practice, that is, how the therapist can be in touch with emotional states in the patient of which the patient is hardly aware.
- You can do this by doing a projective style of interviewing that goes deeper than asking applicants about their backgrounds and what they would do in various hypothetical situations.