Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Extending outward; projecting.
- adj. Relating to or made by projection.
- adj. Mathematics Designating a property of a geometric figure that does not vary when the figure undergoes projection.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. projecting outward
- adj. of, relating to, or caused by a projection
- adj. describing those properties of a figure that are invariant upon projection
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Produced by projection.
- In geometry, relating to incidences and coincidences; not metrical: as, a projective theorem or property.
- Capable, as two plane figures, of being derived from one another by a number of projections and sections.
Etymologies
Examples
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Back to the grown-ups, the idea of projective identification is that Clem, unable to bear his own anger and aggression, stokes it in Marie.
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This idea invites projection like few others -- and something Kleinian analysts call projective identification.
Justin Frank: Politics on the Couch: Opposites Detract or Listening to the Unsaid
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They are related to so called projective sets of real numbers and finite sequences of real numbers.
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The Karmarkar method starts in the inside of the polytope, then uses a technique called projective geometry to warp the whole structure, again and again, in effect changing the shape of the polytope, over and over, until the best solution is achieved.
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The mother-son relationship appeared to be primarily a symbiotic attachment, characterized by projective identification, hostility, and rejection.
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After the spheres, the next important spaces which arise from En by a suitable addition of points at infinity are so-called projective spaces; we will speak only of
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They have something called projective empathy, according to these tapes, and they can use it to make you feel anything they want you to feel.
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It should be distinctly understood that none of these new seedlings have borne fruit, but by what may be termed the projective efficiency of the pedigree I am satisfied that some of them will be valuable.
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This relationship actually forms the basis for a branch of geometry called projective geometry and was discovered in 1648 by Gérard Desargues (1591-1661).
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"projective" -- simply there, outside, in the environment; it has become what we call "subjective."
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