projection
noun OPAL W
/prəˈdʒekʃn/
/prəˈdʒekʃn/
- [countable] 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
- to make forward/backward projections of population figures
- Sales have exceeded our projections.
- Calculations are based on a projection of existing trends.
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessc1- We have been making forward projections as to future profitability of the firm.
- On current projections, there will be more than fifty million people over 65 in 2020.
- The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards.
- They presented profit projections for the rest of the year.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- current
- latest
- initial
- …
- make
- revise
- exceed
- …
- base a projection on something
- on… projections
- projection about
- projection for
- …
- [uncountable, countable] the act of putting an image of something onto a surface; an image that is shown in this way
- the projection of three-dimensional images on a computer screen
- laser projections
- [countable] (specialist) a solid shape or object as represented on a flat surface
- map projections
- [countable] something that sticks out from a surface
- tiny projections on the cell
- [uncountable] the act of making your voice, a sound, etc. audible (= able to be heard) at a distance
- voice projection
- [uncountable] the act of imagining that somebody else is thinking the same as you and is reacting in the same way
- [countable, uncountable] the act of giving a form and structure to inner thoughts and feelings
- The idea of God is a projection of humans' need to have something greater than themselves.
estimate
of image
of solid shape
something that sticks out
of voice/sound
psychology
of thoughts/feelings
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in sense (3)): from Latin projectio(n-), from proicere ‘throw forth’, from pro- ‘forth’ + jacere ‘to throw’.