(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

Usage examples of projection.

He sat there in the office, tapping at the computer as he wrung the cost analyses out of it, adding variables, removing the more unlikely ones, inserting market projections and probable effects on other affiliated firms of the company.

The antibodies lined up side by side, their spaghetti strand projections entangling.

The various appurtenances and projections of the complex molecules apparently adhere to different molecular receptors in the nasal mucosa, and the detectors for all the functional groups combine to put together a kind of collective olfactory image of the molecule.

Tier Breche, but as the uttermost attenuated projection of its substance washed over them, it could feel them.

The bilobed leaf, with the midrib likewise tipped with a bristle, stands in the midst of these projections, and is evidently defended by them.

It was now felt that the angle and velocity would not take the approaching meteor over the Andes, which was a relief to Peru and Ecuador, of course, but the projections also indicated it would track a bit north of the original estimates.

The heavy projections, cracked by the cold of interstellar space and eroded by centuries of dust and micrometeoroid impact, were what had once been the legs.

The media mobbed Canaveral again, but I watched this round on a big digital projection in the auditorium at Perihelion, a sunshine launch that scattered herons into the sky over Merritt Island like bright confetti.

The inner projection of the temporal bone is known as the petrous process.

The artificial gravity had been weakened within these rubbery walls, studded with projections of polyphase matter of various sizes.

The anonymous one was a projectionist who took the reels and disappeared into the back of the projection room.

As to the second ladder, it was secured both at its lower part, which rested on the projection, and at its upper end, which was fastened to the door.

Chronic inflammation develops at the point where the bone is bent or cracked, resulting in thickening, often producing nodules or spur-like projections which not only interfere with nasal breathing, but also act as irritants to the adjacent delicate membranes and produce many of the symptoms common to nasal catarrh.

Instantly images burst forth: the same sort of screenless projection that came from our globe.

I do have a projection on the time required for full analysis of the spiroid wave phenomenon, though, which could lead to a solution and method for reversing the process.