projector

English

Alternative forms

• projectour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

project +‎ -or

Noun

projector (plural projectors)

1. An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen.
2. (dated) A person who devises or manages projects; a planner.
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 […]

Translations

optical device

• Chinese:

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

• Czech: projektor m
• Finnish: piirtoheitin (fi)
• French: projecteur (fr) m
• Galician: proxector m
• German: Projektor (de) m
• Greek: προβολέας (el) m (provoléas)
• Hungarian: projektor, vetítő

• Japanese: プロジェクター (purojekutā), 映写機 (えいしゃき, eishaki)
• Norman: projecteux m
• Polish: rzutnik (pl) m, projektor m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) projetor m, (Portugal) projector m
• Russian: прое́ктор (ru) m (proéktor)
• Slovene: projektor m
• Spanish: proyector (es) m
• Swedish: projektor (sv) c
• Turkish: yansıtım aygıtı (tr), gösterici (tr), projektör (tr)

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Portuguese

Noun

projector m (plural projectores)

1. Alternative form of projetor