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Offshoot vs Projection - What's the difference?

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Offshoot is a related term of projection.


As nouns the difference between offshoot and projection

is that offshoot is that which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc; as, the offshoots of a tree while projection is something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.

offshoot

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(wikipedia offshoot) (en noun)
  • That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
  • Synonyms

    * spinoff

    Anagrams

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    projection

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
  • The face of the cliff had many projections which are big enough for birds to nest on.
  • The action of projecting]] or throwing or [[propel, propelling something.
  • The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
  • A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
  • (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself
  • (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
  • (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.
  • (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
  • (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.
  • (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
  • Synonyms

    * (something which sticks out) protuberance

    Derived terms

    * * astral projection * axonometric projection * dimetric projection * graphical projection * oblique projection * orthographic projection * parallel projection * perspective projection * projective * isometric projection * trimetric projection