Definitions For Projective

Noun

PROJECTIVE (plural PROJECTIVEs) (psychology) An assessment test that presents subjects with some sort of stimulus to which they react by projecting or imagine, imagining details. {{label, en, mathematics}} A projective member of a category. {{label, en, linguistics}} A statement about a conditional or potential state of affairs, as opposed to one about a situation that actually exists or existed.

Adjective

{{en-adj, more}} projecting outward of, relating to, or caused by a projection (mathematics) describing those properties of a figure that are invariant upon projection

Etymology

Formed by the suffixation of , prōiect- (the perfect passive participial stem of the Classical Latin prōiciō}}, whence the {{cog, en, -}} verb project) with the {{cog, en, -ive}}; however, compare the post-Classical {{cog, la, prōiectīvus ("relating to purging").