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English

Etymology

From either the Middle French projection or its etymon, the Classical Latin pr?iecti? (stem: pr?iecti?n-), from pr?ici?. Compare the Modern French projection, the German Projektion, and the Italian proiezione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???d??k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

projection (countable and uncountable, plural projections)

1. Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.

   The face of the cliff had many projections that were big enough for birds to nest on.

2. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
   1. (archaic) The throwing of materials into a crucible, hence the transmutation of metals.
3. (archaic) The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.
4. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
5. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
6. (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself
7. (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
8. (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions.
9. (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
10. (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
11. (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
12. (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

Synonyms

• (something which sticks out): protuberance

Derived terms

Related terms

• project

Translations

Further reading

• projection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

Noun

projection f (plural projections)

1. projection
2. screening (of a film)

Interlingua

Noun

projection (plural projectiones)

1. projection

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ælju?l?/

Etymology 1

From Latin; diminutive of ala (“wing”).

Noun

alula (plural alulae or alulas)

1. (ornithology) A small projection of three or four feathers on the first digit of the wing on some birds. [from 18th c.]
   • 2017, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian, 28 June:

     On the wing, even the tiny “thumb feather” or alula can be seen.

Synonyms

• bastard wing

Translations

Etymology 2

Hawaiian ??lulu

Noun

alula (plural alulas)

1. A flower, a species of Hawaiian lobelioid

Synonyms

• vulcan palm
• cabbage on a stick
• Brighamia insignis / B. insignis / insignis

Hypernyms

• Brighamia
• lobelioid
• Hawaiian lobelioid

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lul?/, [??lul?]
• Rhymes: -?lul?
• Syllabification: a?lu?la

Noun

alula

1. (ornithology) alula

Declension

Synonyms

• pikkusiipi

Anagrams

• laula

French

Noun

alula f (plural alulas)

1. alula (feather)

Italian

Etymology

Diminutive of Latin ?la (“wing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.lu.la/
• Hyphenation: à?lu?la

Noun

alula f (plural alule)

1. Meanings related to zoology:
   1. (ornithology) bastard wing, alula
   2. (entomology) alula, axillary lobe (broad lobe at the proximal posterior margin of the wing stalk of Diptera)
2. (aeronautics) leading-edge slot (aerodynamic feature of an aircraft's wing)

Related terms

• ala

References

• alula in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana