(linguistics) The process by which a word acquires a more negative meaning over time.
The act or process of becoming worse; worsening or degeneration.
pejorative
pejorative
adj
Disparaging, belittling or derogatory.
noun
A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.
perjinkety
prejustify
projacient
projectile
projectile
adj
Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward.
Projecting or impelling forward.
noun
(physics) any object propelled through space by the application of a force.
an object intended to be or having been fired from a weapon.
projecting
projecting
adj
(psychology) Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence.
Sticking out.
noun
A projecting part.
The act by which something is projected.
verb
present participle of project
projection
projection
noun
(archaic) The crisis or decisive point of any process, especially a culinary process.
(archaic) The throwing of materials into a crucible, hence the transmutation of metals.
(cartography) 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.
(category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
(geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
(grammar) The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.
(linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
(mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
(photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
(psychology) 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.
A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
projective
projective
adj
(mathematics) describing those properties of a figure that are invariant upon projection
of, relating to, or caused by a projection
projecting outward
noun
(linguistics) A statement about a conditional or potential state of affairs, as opposed to one about a situation that actually exists or existed.
(mathematics) A projective member of a category.
(psychology) An assessment test that presents subjects with some sort of stimulus to which they react by projecting or imagining details.
projectrix
projicient
projicient
noun
(obsolete) Someone or something that launches a projectile.