the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10
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Projection
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.
(2):
(n.) The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.
(3):
(n.) A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.
(4):
(n.) Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.
(5):
(n.) The act of throwing or shooting forward.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Projection'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/projection.html. 1828.
