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projectives

projectives is the plural of projective.

Meaning of projective

Noun

projective (plural projectives)

  1. An assessment test that presents subjects with some sort of stimulus to which they react by projecting or imagining details.
    • The projectives suggested considerable difficulty with women and a conflict between sexual preoccupation and hostility.1984, Lawrence A. Pervin, Personality: Theory and Research, →ISBN, page 322
  2. A projective member of a category.
    • By 2.2 we see that this is a full, contravariant imbedding, and by 2.3 the image of A in (A, G) is a generating set of small projectives.1965, Theory of Categories, →ISBN, page 109
  3. A statement about a conditional or potential state of affairs, as opposed to one about a situation that actually exists or existed.
    • There was no basis for expecting differences in the frequency of projectives or turnabouts as a function of partner.1995, Keith E. Nelson, Zita Reger, Children's Language - Volume 8, →ISBN

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What is projectives the plural of?
Projectives is the plural of projective.

Words near projectives in the dictionary

  1. projective space
  2. projective spaces
  3. projective varieties
  4. projective variety
  5. projectively
  6. projectives
  7. projectivisation
  8. projectivisations
  9. projectivise
  10. projectivised
  11. projectivises

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