{
    "term": "projection",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an estimate or a statement of what figures, amounts, or events will be in the future, or what they were in the past, based on what is happening now",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to make **forward/backward projections** of population figures"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sales have exceeded our projections."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Calculations are based on a projection of existing trends."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have been making forward projections as to future profitability of the firm."
                },
                {
                    "text": "On current projections, there will be more than 13 million people over 65 iin the UK by 2030."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They presented profit projections for the rest of the year."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["current", "latest", "initial"],
                "verb + projection": ["make", "revise", "exceed"],
                "phrases": ["base a projection on something"],
                "preposition": ["on… projections", "projection about", "projection for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the act of putting an image of something onto a surface; an image that is shown in this way",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the projection of three-dimensional images on a computer screen"
                },
                {
                    "text": "laser projections"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a solid shape or object as represented on a flat surface",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "map projections"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "something that sticks out from a surface",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "tiny projections on the cell"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "the act of making your voice, a sound, etc. audible (= able to be heard) at a distance",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "voice projection"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "the act of imagining that somebody else is thinking the same as you and is reacting in the same way",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "the act of giving a form and structure to inner thoughts and feelings",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The idea of God is a projection of humans' need to have something greater than themselves."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prəˈdʒekʃn/",
                "audio": "pr/projection/projection__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prəˈdʒekʃn/",
                "audio": "pr/projection/projection__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (in sense (3)): from Latin projectio(n-), from proicere ‘throw forth’, from pro- ‘forth’ + jacere ‘to throw’."
}