English Explanatory Dictionary

projector

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something.
  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.
  4. One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others.
  5. An operator that forms a projection.

Pronunciation

/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktə/ /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-projector.wav /pɹəˈd͡ʒektə/

Word forms

projector projectors projectour

Etymology

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

Derived words

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