Visual Studio Multiple Projects in a solution?

How does the visual studio's multiple projects in a solution work? What does it mean? So far I seen it twice in two commercial projects at university (both game engines).

For example in the OGRE engine I downloaded, I can see that there are "33 projects" the solution. These projects range from camera tracking programs to water meshes...

How does including multiple projects in a solution work?
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