Definition of Projection. Meaning of Projection. Synonyms of Projection

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Definition of Projection

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Orthographic Or`tho*graph"ic, Orthographical Or`tho*graph"ic*al, a. [Cf. F. orthographique, L. orthographus, Gr. ?.] 1. Of or pertaining to orthography, or right spelling; also, correct in spelling; as, orthographical rules; the letter was orthographic. 2. (Geom.) Of or pertaining to right lines or angles. Orthographic or Orthogonal, projection, that projection which is made by drawing lines, from every point to be projected, perpendicular to the plane of projection. Such a projection of the sphere represents its circles as seen in perspective by an eye supposed to be placed at an infinite distance, the plane of projection passing through the center of the sphere perpendicularly to the line of sight.

Meaning of Projection from wikipedia

- projection, projecting, projective, or projector in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Projection, projections or projective may refer to: Projection (physics)...
- The equirectangular projection (also called the equidistant cylindrical projection or la carte parallélogrammatique projection), and which includes the...
- In cartography, a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations emplo**** to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane...
- The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical...
- Psychological projection is a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" content mistaken to be coming from the "outside" Other. It forms the basis...
- The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection first presented by Flemish geographer and mapmaker Gerardus Mercator...
- projection (also orthogonal projection and analemma) is a means of representing three-dimensional objects in two dimensions. Orthographic projection is...
- a subspace of a projection is also called a projection, even if the idempotence property is lost. An everyday example of a projection is the casting of...
- vector projection (also known as the vector component or vector resolution) of a vector a on (or onto) a nonzero vector b is the orthogonal projection of...
- In linear algebra and functional analysis, a projection is a linear transformation P {\displaystyle P} from a vector space to itself (an endomorphism)...