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PROJECTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
Example:
a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck
Synonyms:
jutting; projected; projecting; protruding; relieved; sticking; sticking out
Classified under:
Similar:
protrusive (thrusting outward)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb project
Context examples:
The global consumption of antibiotics by food animals, estimated at 131,109 tonnes in 2013, is projected to reach 200,235 tonnes by 2030.
(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)
The newly formed Tongan island, unofficially known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai after its neighbors, was initially projected to last a few months.
(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)
As I looked back I saw the steam from the horses of the coach by the light of the lamps, and projected against it the figures of my late companions crossing themselves.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Although a small correction, it was enough that — projected to one week later when the collision would otherwise have occurred — MAVEN would miss the lumpy, crater-filled moon by about 2.5 minutes.
(NASA Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos, NASA)
I was turning away from him when I observed that something projected from the front of his ragged jacket.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Holmes pointed with a chuckle to one of these, a row of residential flats, which projected so that they could not fail to catch the eye.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But it was then that the unexpected happened, the thing which projected their struggle for supremacy far into the future, past many a weary mile of trail and toil.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
After some laughing, the gentleman whom he had called Quinion, said: And what is the opinion of Brooks of Sheffield, in reference to the projected business?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But it’s the projected reductions in pre-monsoon river flows and changes in the monsoon that will hit hardest, throwing urban water systems and food and energy production off kilter.
(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)
Darker regions correspond to stronger polarized emission, and the striations indicate the direction of the magnetic field projected on the plane of the sky.
(Planck Takes Magnetic Fingerprint of Our Galaxy, JPL/NASA)
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