, or Project, in Mechanics, is any body which, being put into a violent motion by an external force impressed upon it, is dismissed from the agent, and left to pursue its course. Such as a stone thrown out of the hand o<*> a sling, an arrow from a bow, a ball from a gun, &c.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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