projection
Projection (from Latin proicere "throw out, throw down") stands for:
Mathematics and Computer Science:
- Projection (set theory) , mapping a tuple onto one of the tuple components
- Projection (linear algebra) , idempotent linear mapping
- Projection (statistics) , deriving a value from two statistical values
- in which geometry is the mapping of three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional plane, see descriptive geometry
- in cartography the representation of the curved surface of the earth in the plane, see map network design
- in computer science the selection of attributes from a relation, see Relational Algebra #Projection
Additional:
- Projection (optics) , imaging of an object or its image on an image plane through a lens
- Projection (psychoanalysis) , unconscious shifting of inner-psychological content onto other people or objects
- Projection (nervous system) , relocation of a sensory impression to a specific point in the nervous system
- linguistically the passing on of characteristics in a structure, see head (grammar)
See also:
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title starts with projection
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title contains Projection
- projective (disambiguation)
- Project , projector
- Projection bands , Projection Peak , Projection Pursuit
Wiktionary: Projection - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations