What's the difference between projection and projector?

Projection


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of throwing or shooting forward.
  • (n.) A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.
  • (n.) The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.
  • (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.
  • (n.) Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
  • (2) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (3) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
  • (4) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
  • (5) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
  • (6) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
  • (7) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
  • (8) Projection obliquity resulted in consistent underestimation of DPR angle.
  • (9) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
  • (10) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
  • (11) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
  • (12) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
  • (13) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
  • (14) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
  • (15) 14 rats were studied for the nigro-reticular projection.
  • (16) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
  • (17) The axons of A5, RPoOl and RaD neurons exhibit no lateral predominance in their spinal projections.
  • (18) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
  • (19) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
  • (20) In addition to terminating at the brachial segments, they had one to three collaterals to the upper cervical cord (C3-C4), where the propriospinal neurons projecting to forelimb motoneurons are located.

Projector


Definition:

  • (n.) One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The use of lightweight darts and a blowgun was found to be useful as a supplement to longer range dart projector systems since many animals could be approached at short range.
  • (2) Gap distances between the casting and the die were measured at specified marginal sites with a profile projector.
  • (3) Hence with a computer, a projector and a big white screen a whole community learn how to prevent this parasite and infection.
  • (4) The severity of stenosis using DSCAG with a 512 x 512 x 8 bit matrix was semiautomatically measured on the cathode ray tube (CRT) based on enlarged images on the screen of a Vanguard cine projector which were of the same size as those of or 10 times larger than images of Cine-CAG.
  • (5) Wettability was evaluated by measuring the contact angle with a profile projector.
  • (6) Using projectors in the Commons chamber Q: When you gave evidence to the environmental audit committee, you said that one of the reasons why you did not make a statement in the Commons about the climate change risk assessment you published earlier this year was because in the Commons you cannot present data well.
  • (7) The report concludes that the blaze began when a projector ignited gases from the expanding foam and took hold quickly as gaps in the walls.
  • (8) It started with two film projectors in an old hotel along the seafront."
  • (9) The fire service has yet to confirm the cause of the blaze, which some students have suggested could have started in the basement when a spark from a projector ignited a piece of foam.
  • (10) It now has 16,000, plus servers, overhead projectors and televisions.
  • (11) Maps of transversely sectioned crypts were prepared with the use of a microscope eye-piece projector.
  • (12) This transparency film allows the pretreatment fluorescein angiogram and the posttreatment black-and-white or color transparency images to be enlarged and compared without the use of additional photographic enlargers or projectors.
  • (13) The empty cinema has ripped seats and holes where the projector used to be.
  • (14) Hemianopsy was produced by using a combination of a projector, an erasing device and DC ENG.
  • (15) Light from a projector without film was found to be as effective a reinforcer as film reinforcement.
  • (16) The full-face and profile photographic transparencies of 60 subjects (30 male, 30 female) divided equally among Angles Class I, Class II Division 1, and Class III malocclusions, taken before and after orthodontic treatment, were randomly distributed in projector carousels and shown to four panels consisting of orthodontists, dental students, art students, and the parents of children undergoing orthodontic treatment.
  • (17) A little stiffly, he stood at a lectern with a large projector screen beside him.
  • (18) The student work in question was made up of foam panels fastened to three walls, with one wall left blank to receive images from a projector.
  • (19) It's like hearing Dirty Projectors' awesome Stillness Is the Move through the wall as Tricky mumbles his way through Maxinquaye in the foreground.
  • (20) The projector of Iridium 192 wires was conceived in order to reduce this irradiation hazard.