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Projectile vs Projective - What's the difference?

projectile | projective |

As adjectives the difference between projectile and projective

is that projectile is projecting or impelling forward while projective is projecting outward.

As a noun projectile

is an object intended to be or having been fired from a weapon.

projectile

English

Noun

(wikipedia projectile) (en noun)
  • an object intended to be or having been fired from a weapon.
  • (physics) any object propelled through space by the application of a force.

    • See also

    * missile * rocket

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Projecting or impelling forward.
    • a projectile''' force; a '''projectile weapon
  • Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward.
    • projectile motion
    (Arbuthnot)

    projective

    English

    Adjective

  • projecting outward
  • of, relating to, or caused by a projection
  • (mathematics) describing those properties of a figure that are invariant upon projection

    • Derived terms

    *projective algebraic manifold *projective collineation *projective cone *projective correlation *projective differential geometry *projective frame *projective general linear group *projective general orthogonal group *projective general unitary group *projective geometry *projective Hilbert space *projective identification *projective line *projective linear group *projective module *projective object *projective plane *projective plane dissection *projective representation *projective set *projective space *projective special orthogonal group *projective special unitary group *projective symplectic group *projective test *projective texture mapping *projective transformation *projective unitary group *projective variety *projective vector field * (l)

    Related terms

    * (l) English words suffixed with -ive