projector

English Online Dictionary. What means projector‎? What does projector mean?

English

Alternative forms

• projectour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈd͡ʒektə/
• Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)

Noun

projector (plural projectors)

1. Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something. [from 16th c.]
2. An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen. [from 19th c.]
3. That which projects or launches something.

4. (psychology) One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others.
5. (mathematics) An operator that forms a projection.

Derived terms

Translations

Chinese

Etymology

From English projector.

Pronunciation

Noun

projector

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) projector (projection device)

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English projector or German Projektor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌproːˈjɛk.tɔr/
• Hyphenation: pro‧jec‧tor
• Rhymes: -ɛktɔr

Noun

projector m (plural projectoren or projectors, diminutive projectortje n)

1. a projector (projection device)

Derived terms

• diaprojector

Portuguese

Noun

projector m (plural projectores)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of projetor. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.