projector

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/

  • Audio (US):

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• (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.]
   • 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[dward] G[riffin] 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. [from 19th c.]
3. That which projects or launches something.

   a depth charge projector

4. (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 […]

5. (mathematics) An operator that forms a projection.

Derived terms

• film projector
• movie projector
• Northover projector
• overhead projector
• pico projector
• slide projector
• star projector
• video projector

Translations

one who devises or suggests a project

• Finnish: aloitteentekijä

optical device

• Afrikaans: projektor
• Arabic: جِهَاز إِسْقَاط m (jihāz ʔisqāṭ)

  Gulf Arabic: بروجكتر m (brōjiktar, prōjiktar)

• Belarusian: прае́ктар m (prajéktar)
• Bulgarian: прое́ктор m (proéktor)
• Catalan: projector (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放映機 / 放映机 (zh) (fàngyìngjī)

• Czech: projektor m
• Danish: projektor (da) c
• Dutch: projector (nl) m
• Finnish: projektori (fi)
• French: projecteur (fr) m
• Galician: proxector m
• German: Projektor (de) m
• Greek: προβολέας (el) m (provoléas)
• Hindi: प्रक्षेपित्र (prakṣepitra)
• Hungarian: projektor (hu), vetítő (hu)
• Icelandic: skjávarpi m
• Irish: teilgeoir m
• Italian: proiettore (it) m
• Japanese: プロジェクター (ja) (purojekutā), 映写機 (ja) (えいしゃき, eishaki), 投影機 (とうえいき, tōeiki)
• Korean: 투영기(投影機) (tuyeonggi), 프로젝터 (peurojekteo), 영사기(映寫機) (yeongsagi)
• Macedonian: прое́ктор m (proéktor)
• Maori: pūwhiti, tukuata
• Norman: projecteux m
• Polish: rzutnik (pl) m, projektor (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) projetor (pt) m, (Portugal) projector (pt) m
• Romanian: proiector (ro) n
• Russian: прое́ктор (ru) m (proéktor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: про̀јектор m

  Roman: pròjektor (sh) m

• Slovak: projektor m
• Slovene: projektor m
• Spanish: proyector (es) m
• Swahili: projekta
• Swedish: projektor (sv) c
• Turkish: yansıtım aygıtı (tr), gösterici (tr), projektör (tr)
• Ukrainian: проє́ктор m (projéktor)
• Vietnamese: máy chiếu (vi)
• Welsh: taflunydd

psychology: one who projects

• Finnish: projisoija

maths: operator that forms a projection

• Finnish: projektio-operaattori

Chinese

Etymology

From English projector.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pou⁶ zet¹ taa² / pou⁶ zek¹ taa²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: pou⁶ zet¹ taa² / pou⁶ zek¹ taa²
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pou⁶ dzet⁷ taa² / pou⁶ dzek⁷ taa²
    • Guangdong Romanization: pou⁶ zéd¹ ta² / pou⁶ zég¹ ta²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰou̯²² t͡sɛːt̚⁵ tʰaː³⁵/, /pʰou̯²² t͡sɛːk̚⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

Noun

projector

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

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English projector or German Projektor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌproːˈjɛk.tɔr/

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• 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.