<B>projection, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a part that projects or sticks out. <BR> <I>Ex. rocky projections on the face of a cliff.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the act or fact of sticking out. <BR> <I>Ex. The projection of that pole out into the hall may cause someone to trip and fall.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the act or fact of throwing or casting forward. <BR> <I>Ex. the projection of a shell from a cannon, the projection of motion pictures on a screen.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the representation, upon a flat surface, of all or part of the surface of the earth or the celestial sphere. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Geometry.) the act or fact of projecting a figure, upon a line, plane, or surface. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Figurative.) the act or fact of forming projects or plans. <BR> <I>Ex. The mayor's projections for rebuilding the slum areas of the city have found wide acceptance.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Figurative.) an estimate of what will happen; forecast made especially on the basis of past performance. <BR> <I>Ex. None of this means that the latest projections are wrong or that a recession is about to start (Wall Street Journal). If the present projections are realized, there will be twice as many people in Latin America as in North America by the year 2000 (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>(Psychology, Psychiatry.) the treating of what is essentially subjective as objective and external; attributing one's own ideas or feelings to another person or group. <DD><B> 9. </B>(Alchemy.) the casting of the powder of the philosophers' stone upon metal in fusion in order to transmute it into gold or silver. </DL>
<A NAME="projectional">
<B>projectional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with projection. </DL>
<A NAME="projectionbooth">
<B>projection booth,</B> =projection room.</DL>
<A NAME="projectionist">
<B>projectionist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the operator of a motion-picture projector. <DD><B> 2. </B>a television cameraman. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who draws a representation, such as a Mercator projection, of a curved surface upon a plane. </DL>
<A NAME="projectionprint">
<B>projection print,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a photographic enlargement made by projecting an image onto a sensitized surface. <BR> <I>Ex. The two common types of photographs are contact prints and projection prints.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="projectionroom">
<B>projection room,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a room for the projection of motion pictures. <BR> <I>Ex. The light in the projection room went on ... and there was a pause while the operator loaded a new reel (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="projective">
<B>projective, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with projection; produced by projection. <DD><B> 2. </B>projecting. adv. <B>projectively.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="projectivegeometry">
<B>projective geometry,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of geometry that deals with those properties of geometric figures that are unchanged after projection. </DL>
<A NAME="projectivetechnique">
<B>projective technique,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychology.) a method of evaluating personality factors, as by having the individual explain pictures and ink dots and supply dialogue. </DL>
<A NAME="projectivity">
<B>projectivity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the character of being projective, as two plane figures. </DL>
<A NAME="projector">
<B>projector, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an apparatus for projecting an image on a screen. <BR> <I>Ex. a motion-picture projector, a slide projector.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who forms projects; schemer. </DL>
<A NAME="projet">
<B>projet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a plan; project. <DD><B> 2. </B>a draft of a proposed treaty. </DL>
<A NAME="prokaryote">
<B>prokaryote, </B>noun. =procaryote.</DL>
<A NAME="prokaryotic">
<B>prokaryotic, </B>adjective. =procaryotic.</DL>
<A NAME="prol">
<B>prol.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> prologue. </DL>
<A NAME="prolactin">
<B>prolactin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a hormone from the anterior part of the pituitary gland that induces the mammary glands to give milk and affects the activity of the corpus luteum. </DL>
<A NAME="prolamin">
<B>prolamin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of simple proteins that are soluble in dilute alcohol but insoluble in water and absolute alcohol, such as gliadin. The prolamins are present in cereals. </DL>
<A NAME="prolamine">
<B>prolamine, </B>noun. =prolamin.</DL>
<A NAME="prolan">
<B>prolan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> either of two hormones secreted by the pituitary gland that influence the activity of the gonads. They are present in urine during pregnancy. </DL>
<A NAME="prolapse">
<B>prolapse, </B>noun, verb, <B>-lapsed,</B> <B>-lapsing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the slipping out of an organ of the body from its normal position. <BR> <I>Ex. a prolapse of the uterus.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> (of an organ) to fall; slip out of place. </DL>
<A NAME="prolapsus">
<B>prolapsus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-sus.</B> =prolapse.</DL>
<A NAME="prolate">
<B>prolate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>elongated in the direction of the polar diameter. <BR> <I>Ex. A football is a prolate spheroid. A prolate spheroid is generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>extended or extending in width. </DL>
<A NAME="prole">
<B>prole, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a proletarian. </DL>
<A NAME="proleg">
<B>proleg, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an abdominal leg of a caterpillar or other larva. </DL>
<B>prolegomenon, </B>noun, pl. <B>-na.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>preliminary material in a book, treatise, or the like; preface; introduction. <BR> <I>Ex. This book ... is consciously designed to serve as the prolegomenon to, and an explanation of, political history (John Kenyon).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a preliminary statement or remark. <BR> <I>Ex. He, after some ambiguous prolegomena, roundly proposed I should go shares with him (Robert Louis Stevenson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="prolegomenous">
<B>prolegomenous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with prolegomena. <BR> <I>Ex. It may not be amiss in the prolegomenous or introductory chapter, to say something of that species of writing (Henry Fielding).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="prolepsis">
<B>prolepsis, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ses.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=anticipation.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>anticipation of objections in order to answer them in advance. <DD><B> 3. </B>an epithet in anticipation of its becoming applicable. (Example:) "The murdered king falls by a traitor's hand." <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=anachronism.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="proleptic">
<B>proleptic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=anticipative.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. A proleptic instinct made him look forward (Eden Philpotts).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>involving prolepsis. adv. <B>proleptically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="proletarian">
<B>proletarian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or belonging to the proletariat. <BR> <I>Ex. ... irreverent proletarian humor (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or belonging to the proletary of ancient Rome. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) low; vulgar. <DD><I>noun </I> a person belonging to the proletariat. <BR> <I>Ex. The proletarians had not come from their factories at this hour (Booth Tarkington).</I> adv. <B>proletarianly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="proletarianism">
<B>proletarianism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition of being proletarian. <BR> <I>Ex. They had overturned feudalism, and now they had created proletarianism (John Rae).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="proletarianization">
<B>proletarianization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of proletarianizing. <BR> <I>Ex. the "petty bourgeoisie" struggling against proletarianization (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="proletarianize">
<B>proletarianize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make a proletarian of; cause to become proletarian. <BR> <I>Ex. In addition, there is the dual educational objective of intellectualizing the proletariat and proletarianizing the intellectuals (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="proletariat">
<B>proletariat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the lowest class in economic and social status. The proletariat includes unskilled laborers, casual laborers, and tramps. <BR> <I>Ex. The West has faced the task of absorbing its proletariat ... and of giving it the feeling of fully belonging (Saturday Review).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the laboring class in Europe, especially as contrasted by the socialists formerly with slaves and serfs, and now with the middle class. <BR> <I>Ex. the dictatorship of the proletariat (Karl Marx).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the proletaries in ancient Rome. </DL>
<A NAME="proletariate">
<B>proletariate, </B>noun. =proletariat.</DL>
<A NAME="proletary">
<B>proletary, </B>noun, pl. <B>-taries.</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person of the poorest class in ancient Rome, regarded as contributing nothing but children to the state. <DD><I>adj. </I> belonging to the lowest or poorest class. </DL>
<B>proliferate, </B>intransitive verb, transitive verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division. <DD><B> 2. </B>to multiply; spread; propagate. <BR> <I>Ex. These conferences proliferate like measles spots (Harper's).</I> </DL>
