Definition of "projective" [projective]

• Extending outward; projecting. (adjective)
• Relating to or made by projection. (adjective)
• Mathematics Designating a property of a geometric figure that does not vary when the figure undergoes projection. (adjective)

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• "Back to the grown-ups, the idea of projective identification is that Clem, unable to bear his own anger and aggression, stokes it in Marie."
• "This idea invites projection like few others -- and something Kleinian analysts call projective identification."
• "They are related to so called projective sets of real numbers and finite sequences of real numbers."