<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a projecting or protruding part</li><li>the state or fact of jutting out or protruding</li><li>a causing to jut or protrude</li><li>the act, process, or result of projecting</li><li>a systematic construction of lines drawn on a plane surface representative of and corresponding to the meridians and parallels of the curved surface of the earth or celestial sphere (Cartography)</li><li>the act of reproducing on a surface, by optical means, a remote image on a film, slide, etc. (Photography)</li><li>an image so reproduced</li><li>the act of visualizing and regarding an idea or the like as an objective reality</li><li>something that is so visualized and regarded</li><li>calculation of some future thing</li><li>the act of communicating distinctly and forcefully to an audience</li><li>the tendency to ascribe to another person feelings, thoughts, or attitudes present in oneself (Psychology)</li><li>such an ascription relieving the ego of a sense of guilt or other intolerable feeling (Psychoanalysis)</li><li>the act of planning or scheming</li><li>the casting of the powder of philosophers' stone upon metal in fusion, to transmute it into gold or silver (Alchemy)</li></ul>