Definition of Projective

1. Adjective. projecting outward ¹

2. Adjective. of, relating to, or caused by a projection ¹

3. Adjective. (mathematics) describing those properties of a figure that are invariant upon projection ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Projective

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Projective

projectile points
projectile vomit
projectile vomited
projectile vomiting
projectile vomits
projectiles
projecting
projectingly
projection
projection screen
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projectionist
projectionists
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projectivizations
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projectors
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projects

Literary usage of Projective

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Thus any ratio in metric geometry may be turned into a double ratio and rendered projective by adding the point at infinity upon the line to the three ..."

2. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900: Subject Indexby Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod by Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod (1908)
"Invariants of a quadrangle by projective transformation. ... Problem : to place two projective straight lines Kramer, A. Grelle J. 18 (1838) 185-. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"‘a axial pencil laity be projective to an axial pencil. dcli may also be projective to an axial pencil, or either 4 projective to a row. ..."

4. Gauge Fields and Cartan-Ehresmann Connections by Robert Hermann (1975)
"THE Projective GROUP OF A REAL VECTOR SPACE In volume VIII I have discussed the “projective group” in an algebraic-geometric context. ..."

5. Introductory Treatise on Lie's Theory of Finite Continuous Transformation Groups by John Edward Campbell (1903)
"Any sub-group of the general projective group of the plane must be either ... It now remains to prove that every imprimitive projective group of the plane ..."

6. An Elementary Treatise on Pure Geometry with Numerous Examples by John Wellesley Russell (1905)
"Projective ranges are homographic. For the range a is homographic with the ... Homographic ranges are projective. For they can be put in perspective with ..."

7. Theoretical Kinematics by Oene Bottema, Bernard Roth (1990)
"Projective kinematics Although projective differential geometry has been developed extensively (see BOL [1950]) and use has been made there of kinematical ..."

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