Basic Details
Word: Projection
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A picture or film thrown onto a screen by a beam of light; a guess about a future amount worked out from today's figures; or a part that sticks out from a surface.
Synonyms: forecast, estimate, prediction, image
How to Spell Projection
Syllables: pro - jec - tion
Tricky part: The middle is ject with a single j and a c before the t. The ending is tion, though some students write sion because of the sound.
Watch out for: projecsion, prodjection, projektion
Memory tip: Write project, the word for your school assignment, and add ion. Every letter of project stays where it is.
Usage Examples
Example 1: The planetarium's projection of the night sky made the whole dome glitter with stars.
Example 2: A rocky projection on the cliff gave the climber a place to rest.
Example 3: The town council's projection is that the new metro line will be ready by 2030.
Fun Fact
Every flat world map uses a projection, a method of drawing the round Earth on paper, so some countries always look larger or smaller than they really are. On many school maps Greenland looks almost as big as Africa, though Africa is about fourteen times larger.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
cejtonipro
a) protection
b) prediction
c) production
d) projection
Show answer
d) projection. Only one choice uses a j, and the jumble has one.
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
project
a) sion
b) tion
c) ion
d) ian
Show answer
c) ion. Project already gives us the t, so ion alone finishes the noun.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
projecction
a) o
b) c
c) t
d) j
Show answer
b) c. Ject never doubles its c: pro-jec-tion.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. An example of a projection about the future is ____.
a) a list of last week's marks
b) a photo taken last year
c) an estimate that a town will have two lakh people in ten years
d) a report of yesterday's match
Show answer
c) an estimate that a town will have two lakh people in ten years
2. A ledge that sticks out from the wall of a building can be called a ____.
a) projection
b) reflection
c) protection
d) direction
Show answer
a) projection
