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Webster 1913 Edition

Projector

Pro-ject′or

,

Noun.

[Cf. F.

projeteur

.]

1.

One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes.

L’Estrange.

Webster 1828 Edition

Projector

PROJECT'OR

,

Noun.

One who forms a scheme or design.

1.

One who forms wild or impracticable schemes.

Definition 2024

projector

projector

English

Alternative forms

projectour (obsolete, rare)

Noun

projector ‎(plural projectors)

An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen.
(dated) A person who devises or manages projects; a planner.
(psychology) One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others.
- 1982, The Gestalt Journal (volume 5, page 44)
  Projectors attempt to get rid of unwanted feelings, only it does not work; they still experience the unwanted feelings […]

Translations

optical device

Chinese:
Mandarin: 放映機 (zh), 放映机 (zh) ‎(fàngyìngjī)
Czech: projektor m
Finnish: piirtoheitin (fi)
French: projecteur (fr) m
Galician: proxector m
German: Projektor (de) m
Greek: προβολέας (el) m ‎(provoléas)
Hungarian: projektor, vetítő

Japanese: プロジェクター ‎(purojekutā), 映写機 ‎(えいしゃき, eishaki)
Norman: projecteux m
Polish: rzutnik (pl) m, projektor m
Portuguese: (Brazil) projetor m, (Portugal) projector m
Russian: прое́ктор (ru) m ‎(proéktor)
Slovene: projektor m
Spanish: proyector (es) m
Swedish: projektor (sv) c
Turkish: yansıtım aygıtı (tr), gösterici (tr), projektör (tr)

Portuguese

Noun

projector m (plural projectores)

Alternative form of projetor