projection vs swelling

swelling vs projection

projection and swelling both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
projection	Yes	No	No	No
swelling	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, swelling is a hyponym of projection; that is, swelling is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than projection:

projection: any solid convex shape that juts out from something
swelling: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

Other hyponyms of projection include salient, jag, bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, acantha, spine, spur, tail, tail end, knife, tongue, keel.

projection (noun)	swelling (noun)
the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting	the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
the act of projecting out from something	something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
any structure that branches out from a central support	an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
a planned undertaking
a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
any solid convex shape that juts out from something

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