projector
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- projectour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology[edit]
Partly from Latin projector (“person who throws away”); partly directly from project + -or.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
projector (plural projectors)
- 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 4610908, 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 […].
- 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.]
- (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 […]
- 1982, The Gestalt Journal (volume 5, page 44)
- (mathematics) An operator that forms a projection.
Translations[edit]
one who devises or suggests a project
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optical device
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psychology: one who projects
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maths: operator that forms a projection
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Chinese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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projector
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) projector (projection device)
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably borrowed from English projector or German Projektor.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
projector m (plural projectoren or projectors, diminutive projectortje n)
- A projector (projection device).
Derived terms[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
projector m (plural projectores)
- Alternative form of projetor
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