projective

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   projecting outward

2. 2

   of, relating to, or caused by a projection

3. 3

   Of or related to projective geometry

   Of or related to projective geometry:

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   1. 4

      In a technical sense, general (but not necessarily so general as to be free)

      In a technical sense, general (but not necessarily so general as to be free); involving such objects:

   2. 5

      An assessment test that presents subjects with some sort of stimulus to which they react…

      An assessment test that presents subjects with some sort of stimulus to which they react by projecting or imagining details.

      • The projectives suggested considerable difficulty with women and a conflict between sexual preoccupation and hostility.
      • The unimpressive evidence for validity and operational problems related to projectives led Reilly and Chao to a pessimistic conclusion regarding projectives.
   3. 6

      A projective member of a category.

      • By 2.2 we see that this is a full, contravariant imbedding, and by 2.3 the image of A in (A, G) is a generating set of small projectives.
      • In particular our assumptions hold if B is an abelian category with enough projectives.
      • The idea behind “cheating with projectives” in a pre-Abelian category with a separating class of projectives is this: Make the arrows do the work that elements do in concrete categories.
   4. 7

      A statement about a conditional or potential state of affairs, as opposed to one about a…

      A statement about a conditional or potential state of affairs, as opposed to one about a situation that actually exists or existed.

      • There was no basis for expecting differences in the frequency of projectives or turnabouts as a function of partner.
      • The volitive moods (also called volitives, volitional forms, modals, or projectives) are the imperative, jussive, and cohortative.
      • This implies they contain more information than projectives. For if language is a code, then every element of that code – here, every word, every form of a word – would register a distinct semantic ingredient.

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