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PROJECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does projected mean? 

PROJECTED (adjective)
  The adjective PROJECTED has 1 sense:

1. extending out above or beyond a surface or boundaryplay

  Familiarity information: PROJECTED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROJECTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

Synonyms:

jutting; projected; projecting; protruding; relieved; sticking; sticking out

Context example:

a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck

Similar:

protrusive (thrusting outward)


 Context examples 


At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion; and the thing that was projected was Edward Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The projected date of delivery for a pregnant female.

(Expected Date of Confinement, NCI Thesaurus)

That model closely predicted the asteroid’s actual shape, with Bennu’s diameter, rotation rate, inclination, and overall shape presented almost exactly as projected.

(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)

A function that measures the distance between two expression vectors as the data are projected into higher-dimensional space.

(Kernel Function, NCI Thesaurus)

May I hope for the honour of your hand for the two first dances of this little projected ball, to be given, not at Randalls, but at the Crown Inn?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Mr. Holmes, Mr. Holmes,” he said, turning the front of his coat and exhibiting the butt of a large revolver, which projected from the inside pocket.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again the tiny point of black projected itself through the wrathful blaze a couple of points off our port-bow.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In a doleful voice Mrs. Bennet began the projected conversation: “Oh! Mr. Collins!”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The models therefore projected Greenland's contribution to global sea level rise would be limited.

(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)

The paper's projections of species loss are similar for plants and animals, but extinctions are projected to be two to four times more common in the tropics than in temperate regions.

(One-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50 years, National Science Foundation)



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