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projector en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pɹəˈd͡ʒektə/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
• (US) audio
• /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/ (Canada, General-American)
• /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Partly from Latin projector (“person who throws away”); partly directly from project + -or.

Meanings

1. Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something.
   • [A]s the Doctor neither did this, nor yet sent him an answer, the projector wrote a second letter […]. 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:
   • So far is it from the kenne of theſe wretched projectors of ours that beſcraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church. 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, “That Church-governement is Prescrib’d in the Gospell, and that to Say Otherwise is Unsound”, in The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 4:
   • […] either the work of the winter storms, or perhaps the victims of some extensive but desultory scheme of denudation, which the projector had not capital or perseverance to carry into full effect. 1838, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess:
2. An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen.
3. That which projects or launches something.
   • a depth charge projector
4. One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others.
   • Projectors attempt to get rid of unwanted feelings, only it does not work; they still experience the unwanted feelings […] 1982, The Gestalt Journal, volume 5, page 44:
5. An operator that forms a projection.

Forms

Deriveds

autoprojector · star projector · holoprojector · picoprojector · miniprojector · Northover projector · video projector · film projector · movie projector · microprojector · pico projector · slide projector · projectress · superprojector · overhead projector · eigenprojector · projectorless

Translations (86)

hy պրոյեկտոր (optical device) · sq projektor (optical device) · ga teilgeoir (optical device) · tr projektör (optical device) · tr projeksiyon cihazı (optical device) · ka პროექტორი (optical device) · mi tukuata (optical device) · sw projekta (optical device) · fi projektori (optical device) · nrf projecteux (optical device) · cs promítačka (optical device) · da billedprojektor (optical device) · pl rzutnik (optical device) · kk проекциялағыш (optical device) · lt projektorius (optical device) · pl projektor (optical device) · es proyector (optical device) · cs projektor (optical device) · it proiettore (optical device) · lv projektors (optical device) · sh pròjektor (optical device) · ja プロジェクター (optical device) · nb prosjektor (optical device) · pt projector (optical device) · pt projetor (optical device) · az proyektor (optical device) · ru прое́ктор (optical device) · cmn 投影機 /投影机 (optical device) · ko 프로젝터 (optical device) · ar جِهَاز إِسْقَاط (optical device) · sk premietačka (optical device) · sk projektor (optical device) · is skjávarpi (optical device) · ko 영사기 (optical device) · ca projector (optical device) · ro proiector (optical device) · de Bildwerfer (optical device) · afb بروجكتر (optical device) · fa-ira پُروژِکْتور (optical device) · bg прое́ктор (optical device) · uz projektor (optical device) · tr gösterici (optical device) · fi aloitteentekijä (one who devises or suggests a project) · sh про̀јектор (optical device) · mn проектор (optical device) · cy taflunydd (optical device) · fr projecteur (optical device) · ug پرويېكتور (optical device) · kk проектор (optical device) · cmn 放映機 /放映机 (optical device) · de Projektor (optical device) · cmn 投影儀 /投影仪 (optical device) · tk proýektor (optical device) · tg проектор (optical device) · fa-ira فَراتاب (optical device) · id proyektor (optical device) · el προβολέας (optical device) · sl projektor (optical device) · gl proxector (optical device) · hi प्रक्षेपित्र (optical device) · fi projisoija (psychology: one who projects) · ky проектор (optical device) · fi projektio-operaattori (maths: operator that forms a projection) · ja 投影機 (optical device) · tr yansıtım aygıtı (optical device) · sv projektor (optical device) · fa-ira آپارات (optical device) · ja 映写機 (optical device) · be прае́ктар (optical device) · th โปรเจ็กเตอร์ (optical device) · ko 투영기 (optical device) · hu projektor (optical device) · da projektor (optical device) · et projektsiooniaparaat (optical device) · nb projeksjonsapparat (optical device) · es proyectora (optical device) · af projektor (optical device) · et projektor (optical device) · hu vetítő (optical device) · vi máy chiếu (optical device) · nl projector (optical device) · uk проє́ктор (optical device) · bn প্রক্ষেপক (optical device) · he מַקְרֵן (optical device) · mi pūwhiti (optical device) · mk прое́ктор (optical device)