projector

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)

Noun

projector (plural projectors)

  1. Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something.
    • 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 G for Iohn Rothwell, , →OCLC, 1st book, page 4:
      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.
    • 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:
      [A]s the Doctor neither did this, nor yet sent him an answer, the projector wrote a second letter […].
    • 1838, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess:
      […] 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.
  2. An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen.
  3. (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 […]
  4. (mathematics) An operator that forms a projection.

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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

Noun

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

  1. A projector (projection device).

Derived terms

Portuguese

Noun

projector m (plural projectores)

  1. Alternative form of projetor
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