Projective

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Extending outward; projecting.
  • adj. Relating to or made by projection.
  • adj. Mathematics Designating a property of a geometric figure that does not vary when the figure undergoes projection.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. projecting outward
  • adj. of, relating to, or caused by a projection
  • adj. describing those properties of a figure that are invariant upon projection
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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