When you push something away from a central structure, that's called projection. If you predict that the Jets will win tomorrow's game, that's a projection, too — you're pushing your mind away from the present and into the future.
The Jets and projection actually have a common linguistic ancestor. Both the ject in projection and the word jet come from the Latin root jactus, which means "throw." A jet plane throws itself — or projects itself — away from a central structure (the Earth) and into the air.
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the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
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a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
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the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
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a planned undertaking
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(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
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the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
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