process vs projection

process

noun
  • A structure that arises above a surface. 

  • Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health. 

  • A path of succession of states through which a system passes. 

  • A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries. 

  • The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails. 

  • A series of events which produce a result (the product). 

  • An executable task or program. 

  • Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ. 

  • An outgrowth of tissue or cell. 

verb
  • To perform a particular process on a thing. 

  • To develop photographic film. 

  • To take legal proceedings against. 

  • To walk in a procession 

  • To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques. 

  • To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state. 

projection

noun
  • An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions. 

  • The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something. 

  • A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation 

  • An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace. 

  • Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions. 

  • The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector. 

  • A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own. This includes making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser. 

  • The image that a translucent object casts onto another object. 

  • Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out. 

  • A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object. 

  • A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components. 

  • The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle. 

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