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projector

  • noun
  • /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktə/

Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something.

Other meanings

  1. An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen.

  2. That which projects or launches something.

    “a depth charge projector”

A kind of

  • optical device

Related words

  • film projector
  • movie projector
  • Northover projector
  • overhead projector
  • pico projector
  • slide projector
  • star projector
  • video projector
  • autoprojector
  • eigenprojector
  • holoprojector
  • microprojector

Word history

From Latin "projector" (person who throws away).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “projector” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.