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Forecasting vs Projecting - What's the difference?

forecasting | projecting |

As verbs the difference between forecasting and projecting

is that forecasting is while projecting is .

As a noun forecasting

is a forecast or prediction.

As an adjective projecting is

sticking out.

forecasting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A forecast or prediction.
  • * 1852 , The Dublin University Magazine (page 66)
    • There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin

    projecting

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Sticking out.
    • I caught and tore my coat on the projecting nail.
  • (psychology) Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence.

    • Verb

    (head)