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prop. n. (U. S. History) A former US agency that was responsible for developing atomic bombs during World War II. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. project, F. projet, fr. L. projectus, p. p. of projicere to project; pro forward + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth, and cf. Projet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vented much policy, and projects deep. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Projects of happiness devised by human reason. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

He entered into the project with his customary ardor. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Design; scheme; plan; purpose. -- Project, Design. A project is something of a practical nature thrown out for consideration as to its being done. A design is a project when matured and settled, as a thing to be accomplished. An ingenious man has many projects, but, if governed by sound sense, will be slow in forming them into designs. See also Scheme. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Projected; p. pr. & vb. n. Projecting. ] [ Cf. OF. projecter, F. projeter. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before his feet herself she did project. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Behold! th' ascending villas on my side
Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan. [ 1913 Webster ]

What sit then projecting peace and war? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Persp.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To form a project; to scheme. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. projectile. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. projectile. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Mech.) A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ L. projectio: cf. F. projection. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of throwing or shooting forward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan. Davenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Persp.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Geog.) Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conical projection, a mode of representing the sphere, the spherical surface being projected upon the surface of a cone tangent to the sphere, the point of sight being at the center of the sphere. --
Cylindric projection, a mode of representing the sphere, the spherical surface being projected upon the surface of a cylinder touching the sphere, the point of sight being at the center of the sphere. --
Globular,
Gnomonic,
Orthographic,
projection, etc. See under Globular, Gnomonic, etc. --
Mercator's projection, a mode of representing the sphere in which the meridians are drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude are straight lines whose distance from each other increases with their distance from the equator, so that at all places the degrees of latitude and longitude have to each other the same ratio as on the sphere itself. --
Oblique projection, a projection made by parallel lines drawn from every point of a figure and meeting the plane of projection obliquely. --
Polar projection, a projection of the sphere in which the point of sight is at the center, and the plane of projection passes through one of the polar circles. --
Powder of projection (Alchemy.), a certain powder cast into a crucible or other vessel containing prepared metal or other matter which is to be thereby transmuted into gold. --
Projection of a point on a plane (Descriptive Geom.), the foot of a perpendicular to the plane drawn through the point. --
Projection of a straight line of a plane, the straight line of the plane connecting the feet of the perpendiculars let fall from the extremities of the given line. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Protuberance. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. Design; contrivance; projection. [ Obs. ] Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. projeteur. ] 1. One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. an optical instrument which projects an image from a transparency or an opaque image onto a projection screen or other surface, using an intense light and one or more lenses to focus the image. The term projector by itself is usually used for projection of transparent images by passing the light beam through the image; a projector which projects an image of an opaque object is now ususally referred to as an overhead projector. In projection of this latter form the projection is accomplished by means of a combination of lenses with a prism and a mirror or reflector. Specific instruments have been called by different names, such as balopticon, radiopticon, radiopticon, mirrorscope, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

Slide projector a projector for displaying images from individual transparencies (slides), each mounted in a separate frame suited to the mechanics of the projector. --
movie projector a projector which displays a series of images from a roll of transparent film in rapid sucession, thus giving the impression of showing a scene with motion as it originally was recorded. --
overhead projector see projector{ 2 }, above. --> [ PJC ]