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projective

a. 1 projecting outward 2 of, relating to, or caused by a projection 3 (context mathematics English) describing those properties of a figure that are invariant upon projection

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For the mathematically inclined reader we note that this particular Calabi-Yau space is a real three-dimensional slice through the quintic hypersurface in complex projective four-space.

Our experience with Rorschach and other psychological projective tests is that different people see the same nonrepresentational image in different ways.

A host of other, simpler, defence mechanisms put to use by the parent are likely to obscure the predominant use of projective identification: projection, displacement, intellectualisation, depersonalisation.

Yet I find an absolute responsibility for the fact that my facticity (here the fact of my birth) is directly inapprehensible and even inconceivable, for this fact of my birth never appears as a brute fact but always across a projective reconstruction of my for-itself.

He had a coterie of admirers listening to him talk about control theory and the biological effects of projective chaos weapons.

But on the day after he had refused it for the first time, the memory banks decanted a double dose of projective Riemannian geometry, and he awoke to find four monitors holding him down on the couch during the last throes of a classical Jacksonian seizure.

In projective geometry, the `point at infinity' was where two parallel lines met: the trick was to draw them in perspective, like railway lines heading off towards the horizon, in which case they appear to meet on the horizon.

The power points of the planet, places that naturally generated specific types of energy, possessed both positive and projective frequencies, and others were negative and receptive.

Three dimmer stars hanging from the belt are, according to the conventional astronomical projective test, Orion’.

Is Tir-na Nog'th a special sphere of Shadow in the real world, swayed by the promptings of the id-a full-sized projective test in the sky, perhaps even a therapeutic device?

Is Tir-na Nog'th a special sphere of Shadow in the real world, swayed by the promptings of the id -- a full-sized projective test in the sky, perhaps even a therapeutic device?

I was in it and vice versa-equally distributed and totally contained by/in the nightmare system with consciousness at C-n and chillthirstheatchillthirstheat a repeating decimal running every/anywhere on the projective plane that surrounded .

Classes in thought control and projective telepathy are offered twice a week, on Ilsday and Azday.