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- English Word Projectile Definition Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion.
- English Word Projectile Definition A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm.
- English Word Projectile Definition A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force.
- English Word Projecting Definition of Project
- English Word Projection Definition The act of throwing or shooting forward.
- English Word Projection Definition A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.
- English Word Projection Definition The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.
- English Word Projection Definition The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.
- English Word Projection Definition Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.
- English Word Projectment Definition Design; contrivance; projection.
- English Word Projector Definition One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes.
- English Word Projecture Definition A jutting out beyond a surface.
- English Word Projet Definition A plan proposed; a draft of a proposed measure; a project.
- English Word Proke Definition To poke; to thrust.
- English Word Prolapse Definition The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum.
- English Word Prolapse Definition To fall down or out; to protrude.
- English Word Prolapsion Definition Prolapse.
- English Word Prolapsus Definition Prolapse.
- English Word Prolata Definition of Prolatum
- English Word Prolate Definition Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate.