projector

English

Alternative forms

• projectour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɹəˈdʒɛktɚ/

• Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)

Noun

projector (plural projectors)

1. Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something. [from 16th c.]
   • 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 […].

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. (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.

Translations

one who devises or suggests a project

• Finnish: aloitteentekijä

optical device

• Afrikaans: projektor
• Arabic:

  Gulf Arabic: بروجكتر‎ m (brōjiktar, prōjiktar)

• Bulgarian: прожектор m (prožektor)
• Catalan: projector (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: projektor m
• Dutch: projector (nl) m
• Finnish: projektori (fi)
• French: projecteur (fr) m
• Galician: proxector m
• German: Projektor (de) m
• Greek: προβολέας (el) m (provoléas)
• Hungarian: projektor, vetítő
• Icelandic: skjávarpi m
• Irish: teilgeoir m

• Japanese: プロジェクター (purojekutā), 映写機 (えいしゃき, eishaki)
• Maori: pūwhiti
• Norman: projecteux m
• Polish: rzutnik (pl) m, projektor (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) projetor (pt) m, (Portugal) projector (pt) m
• Russian: прое́ктор (ru) m (proéktor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: про̀јектор m

  Roman: pròjektor (sh) m

• Slovene: projektor m
• Spanish: proyector (es) m
• Swedish: projektor (sv) c
• Turkish: yansıtım aygıtı (tr), gösterici (tr), projektör (tr)
• Ukrainian: проє́ктор m (projéktor)
• Welsh: taflunydd

psychology: one who projects

• Finnish: projisoija

maths: operator that forms a projection

• Finnish: projektio-operaattori

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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

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Portuguese

Noun

projector m (plural projectores)

1. Alternative form of projetor