Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Extending outward; projecting.
- adjective Relating to or made by projection.
- adjective Mathematics Designating a property of a geometric figure that does not vary when the figure undergoes projection.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Produced by projection.
- In geometry, relating to incidences and coincidences; not metrical: as, a projective theorem or property.
- Capable, as two plane figures, of being derived from one another by a number of projections and sections.
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- adjective
projecting outward - adjective of, relating to, or caused by a
projection - adjective mathematics describing those properties of a
figure that areinvariant uponprojection
Etymologies
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Examples
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Back to the grown-ups, the idea of projective identification is that Clem, unable to bear his own anger and aggression, stokes it in Marie.
THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010
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This idea invites projection like few others -- and something Kleinian analysts call projective identification.
Justin Frank: Politics on the Couch: Opposites Detract or Listening to the Unsaid 2008
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They are related to so called projective sets of real numbers and finite sequences of real numbers.
Kurt Gödel Kennedy, Juliette 2007
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The Karmarkar method starts in the inside of the polytope, then uses a technique called projective geometry to warp the whole structure, again and again, in effect changing the shape of the polytope, over and over, until the best solution is achieved.
Economic Principals David Warsh 1993
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The mother-son relationship appeared to be primarily a symbiotic attachment, characterized by projective identification, hostility, and rejection.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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After the spheres, the next important spaces which arise from En by a suitable addition of points at infinity are so-called projective spaces; we will speak only of
INFINITY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
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It should be distinctly understood that none of these new seedlings have borne fruit, but by what may be termed the projective efficiency of the pedigree I am satisfied that some of them will be valuable.
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They have something called projective empathy, according to these tapes, and they can use it to make you feel anything they want you to feel.
Teams A Terran Empire story Ann Wilson
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This relationship actually forms the basis for a branch of geometry called projective geometry and was discovered in 1648 by Gérard Desargues (1591-1661).
Recently Uploaded Slideshows sahmozac 2010
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"projective" -- simply there, outside, in the environment; it has become what we call "subjective."
The Story of the Mind James Mark Baldwin 1897
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