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projection

projection

1 4.5
How well a voice or sound carries so people far away can hear it
  • noun
  • /prəˈdʒɛkʃən/
translation icon : proyección de la voz
  • To improve your performance, focus on your projection so that your voice carries to the back of the theater.
  • voice projection

And I don't even know, like I couldn't teach a class on projection technique because it's like basically just built into how I speak now.

Examples

  • Nevertheless, no matter what the cause, problems with hoarseness, a weak voice, or difficulty with voice projection can significantly impact the ability of a person to continue to work.

    Academic text (2011)
  • During her speech class, the instructor emphasized the importance of projection to ensure everyone in the audience could hear her clearly.

  • As a teacher noted, "we talked about voice projection, and I still use that.

    Academic text (2013)
  • One TAP lesson focuses on voice projection.

    Academic text (2013)
  • "I guess something about my voice and my projection of myself meshes with the poems."

    Blog text (3)
  • Your projection was amazing.

  • Teach them to concentrate on producing the singing tone with the same frontal projection that they use in speaking.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Good voice projection.

    Academic text (2011)
  • For example, Frost works with Barbara Jeans to help her lower the tone of her voice and work on her projection through repetition of warning phrases.

    Academic text (2013)
  • After we did our voice projection, when the kids were speaking during think-aloud, we would use classroom voices, and then we would use our quiet voices in the library, you know, our low voices, and our gruff voices when we're acting out characters, but never when we're talking to the teacher or our peer students.

    Academic text (2013)

Synonyms

sound projection
vsprojection
  • Specialized
6.4

How far and how clearly people hear a sound in a place

is about making voice or music easily heard by an audience
acoustic projection
vsprojection
  • Specialized
7.0

A sound quality that makes a voice or instrument travel far and be heard clearly

focuses on audience clarity rather than cutting through competing noise

Antonyms

274 5.6

So quiet that you cannot hear it

40 3.7

A sound made quieter and less clear by something covering or blocking it

Compounds

A large white surface on which a projector shows images or videos

conformal projection
  • Specialized
9.9

A map that keeps small shapes and local angles correct but may change size

conic projection
  • Specialized
7.9

A map that shows the Earth's surface on a cone placed over the globe

conical projection
  • Specialized
8.9

A way to make a flat map by copying Earth onto a cone over part of the globe

7.9

A way of drawing the world on a flat map that keeps areas the correct size

equal-area projection
  • Specialized
7.7

A way of making a flat map that keeps each place's area the same as on the globe

acoustic projection
  • Specialized
7.0

A sound quality that makes a voice or instrument travel far and be heard clearly

front-projection TV
  • Specialized
6.1

A TV system that projects images onto a screen from the front

map projection
  • Specialized
6.1

A method for drawing the Earth's round surface on a flat map that changes shapes or sizes

Mercator projection
  • Specialized
8.3

A map made by putting the world on a cylinder that keeps shapes but makes areas bigger near the poles

Mercator's projection
  • Specialized
8.9

A map that shows north-south and east-west lines as straight and makes polar areas look larger than they are

homolosine projection
  • Specialized
9.9

A world map that shows continents at their true size by changing ocean shapes

9.9

A way of drawing the Earth on a flat map that keeps small areas in their true shape and angles

polyconic projection
  • Specialized
9.9

A map that uses curved latitude lines so distances match the globe along them

9.9

A way of drawing the world on a flat map that keeps area correct and suits maps near the equator

sinusoidal projection
  • Specialized
9.5

A map that shows the equator and east-west lines straight and north-south lines wavy while keeping areas correct

sound projection
  • Specialized
6.4

How far and how clearly people hear a sound in a place

How Loud

resonance
5 5.8
projection
1 4.5
voice
1.0
murmur
36 4.1
whisper
110 1.0

Surface Forms

projection singular
projections plural

Morphology

projection = project (transparent) = project + ion

The sense is a regular metaphorical extension of 'project' (to send out), so the nominalized form with '-ion' is readily interpretable.

Etymology

Projection comes from Latin parts pro- 'forward' and ject 'throw', the same root as in projector. A voice projection is the way sound is 'thrown' so it carries and reaches the audience.