Word Finder - projections

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Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.

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The face of the cliff had many projections that were big enough for birds to nest on.

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The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.

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The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.

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The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.

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A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation

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A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself

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The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.

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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.

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An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.

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An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.

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A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.

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A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

Trains coming in contact with projections from other trains or vehicles on parallel lines 7.

He was he deals with the principles of mathematical geography, map projections, and sources of information with special reference FIG.

The cylindrical and modified conical projections of Marinus and Ptolemy were still widely used, the stereographical projection of Hipparchus, was for the first time employed for terrestrial maps in the 16th century, but new projections were introduced in addition to these.

Werner (1514) devised three heart-shaped projections, one of which was equivalent.

If the joint be provided either with projections and recesses, such as murtises and tenons, or with fastenings, such as pins or bolts, so as to resist displacement by sliding, the question of the utmost amount of the tangential resistance CQ which it is capable of exerting depends on the strength of such projections, recesses, or fastenings; and belongs to the subject of strength, and not to that of stability.

For example, all ellipsoids referred to co-ordinates parallel to any three conjugate diameters are parallel projections of each other and of a sphere referred to rectangular co-ordinates.

Parallel Projections of Systems of Forces.If a balanced system of forces be represented by a system of lines, then will every parallel projection of that system of lines represent a balanced system of forces.

Velocity Ratio of Components of Motion.As the distance between any two points in a rigid body is invariable, the projections of their velocities upon the line joining them must be equal.

Screws.The figure of a screw is that of a convex or concave cylinder, with one or more helical projections, called threads, winding round it.

Twig-like projections, to which the term helictite has been applied by the present writer, are met with in certain portions of the cave, and are interesting by their strange and uncouth contortions.

It is the opinion of almost all who have studied the subject that any natural bed may in time be destroyed by overfishing (perhaps not by removing all the oysters, but by breaking up the colonies, and delivering over the territory which they once occupied to other kinds of animals), by burying the breeding oysters, by covering up the projections suitable for the reception of spat, and by breaking down, through the action of heavy dredges, the ridges which are especially fitted to be seats of the colonies.'

The pedicles are always covered with skin well supplied with blood-vessels; and in young deer, or those in which the antlers have been comparatively recently shed, the covering of skin extends over their summits, when they appear as longer or shorter projections on the forehead, according to the species.

The introduction of steel construction has simplified many details of architectural treatment, such as projections for cornices, bay windows and galleries.

Other epidermic appendages are the horns of ruminants and rhinoceroses - the former being elongated, tapering, hollow caps of hardened epidermis of fibrous structure, fitting on and growing from conical projections of the frontal bones and always arranged in pairs, while the latter are of similar structure, but without any internal bony support, and situated in the middle line.

As the teeth of the upper and the lower jaws work against each other in masticating, there is a general correspondence or harmony between them, the projections of one series, when the mouth is closed, fitting into corresponding depressions of the other.

In some places limestones appear as projections from the range; at others conglomerates and Tertiary clay marls form the outermost fold."' On the north versant of the ranges the rainfall increases from the foot of the mountains upwards, and at woo-10,000 ft.

These papillae, which are found everywhere, are the primary papillae; they are covered with small, scale-like projections called secondary papillae, and are specially developed on the dorsal surface, less so on the ventral.

Since all conics derived from a circular cone appear circular when viewed from the apex, they conceived the treatment of the conic sections as projections of a circle.

This resistance is due to the roughness of the surfaces; the minute projections upon each enter more or less into the minute depressions on the other, and when motion occurs these roughnesses must either be worn off, or continually lifted out of the hollows into which they have fallen, or both, the resistance to motion being in either case quite perceptible and measurable.

Upon these projections the rudiments of the pollen-sacs are then seen, usually four in number, two on each lobe.

The natural vision is such that different central projections of the objects are communicated to both eyes; the difference of the two perspective representations arises from the fact that the projection centres are laterally separated by an interval about equal to the distance between the eyes (the inter-pupillary distance).

Ultimately, somewhere, economic projections resulted.

Thus, the " doomsday " projections by early writers were not entirely baseless.

A future of controlled fertility and rapidly changing roles of women make projections of sex ratios highly conjectural.

We have examined the morphology and longitudinal axon projections of a population of spinal commissural interneurons, in young Xenopus tadpoles.

This bold new production works with puppets, projections, machines and music to weave an irresistible magic.

The cost of the war itself exceed previous public projections from the office of the Secretary of Defense.

A range of intelligence will be used to select the LAs, including evidence from the subnational population projections.

Tool for Stereographic projection - This tools allows you to draw stereographic projections for different crystal types using different poles for the projection axis.

The works are constructed by adapting formal graphic principles, largely based on perspectival and orthographic projections, often parodying GUI layouts.

The 2002-based projections are due to be published in October 2003.

Each investee company must provide regular reports on business and financial progress - including cashflow projections, management accounts and audited financial statements.

The household projections were important for Regional Planning Guidance.

The piece involved the use of film and slide projections and an original musical score.

In a manner reminiscent of Feuerbach, Durkheim stated that the deities which men worship together are only projections of the power of society.

Hence all the fancy projections of fabulous economic returns are quite frankly risible.

This theorem has been generalized for any tetrahedron; a sphere can be drawn through the four feet of the perpendiculars, and consequently through the mid-points of the lines from the vertices to the centre of the hyperboloid having these perpendiculars as generators, and through the orthogonal projections of these points on the opposite faces.

It is rich, ornate, yet hardly florid, distinguished by splendid effects of light and shade, obtained by a far bolder use of projections than had hitherto been found in the somewhat fiat design of Venetian façades.

Other forms show no indication of ever having been attached, while some that had been moored by means of a peduncle during the early portion of their existence have become detached at a more advanced stage of life, the opening becoming gradually cicatrized, as is so often seen in Leptaena rhomboidalis, Orthisina anomala, &c. Lastly, some species adhere to submarine objects by a larger or smaller portion of their ventral valve, as is the case with many forms of Crania, Thecidium, Davidsonia, &c. Some Cranias are always attached by the whole surface of their lower or ventral valve, which models itself and fills up all the projections or depressions existing on either the rock, shell or coral to which it adhered.

Since the circulation round any triangular area of given aspect is the sum of the circulation round the projections of the area on the coordinate planes, the composition of the components of spin,, 7,, is according to the vector law.

Now the granite, continuing for long distances, forms the prevailing rock; then, again, it forms the foundation for thick strata of schist and sandstone, itself only appearing in valleys of erosion and river boulders, in rocky projections on the coasts or in the ridges of the mountains....

The region PbEeE' contains all the alloys that commence their solidification by the crystallization of lead; similarly, the other two regions correspond to the initial crystallization of bismuth and tin respectively; these areas are the projections of the three sheets of the freezing-point surface.

Construct a small cylinder inside the gas, having dS as base and edges such that the projections of each on the coordinate axes are udt, vdt, wdt.

Poinsot gave the formula E 2k = eV + F, in which k is the number of times the projections of the faces from the centre on to the surface of the circumscribing sphere make up the spherical surface, the area of a stellated face being reckoned once, and e is the ratio " angles at a vertex /21r" as projected on the sphere, E, V, F being the same as before.

I hope that these write-off costs have been included in the financial projections.

Projections and estimates indicate that in the year 2020 the United States will need approximately 730,000 more affordable housing units to fill the needs of its low-income seniors.

In 2004, it generated over $304 million in sales revenue for game publishers and projections for 2005 are even larger with some analysts expecting over $1.3 billion in revenue.

Take Two has indicated that the ban will not have a dramatic impact on their current sales projections.

In October 2005, The New York Times said that the companies' first post-merger report was barely above Wall Street's projections.

Tiny hair-like projections on the surface of these passageways slowly sweep the mucus along, out of the lungs and up the trachea to the back of the throat, where it may be swallowed or coughed up.