"projector" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-projector.wav [US] Forms: projectors [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ) Etymology: Partly from Latin projector (“person who throws away”); partly directly from project + -or. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|projector||person who throws away}} Latin projector (“person who throws away”), {{suffix|en|project|or}} project + -or Head templates: {{en-noun}} projector (plural projectors)
  1. Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something. Categories (topical): People Translations (one who devises or suggests a project): aloitteentekijä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-projector-en-noun-i--YvGpY Disambiguation of People: 44 18 37 0 Disambiguation of 'one who devises or suggests a project': 62 9 27 1
  2. An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen. Categories (topical): People Translations (optical device): projektor (Afrikaans), جِهَاز إِسْقَاط (jihāz ʔisqāṭ) [masculine] (Arabic), بروجكتر (brōjiktar, prōjiktar) [Gulf-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), прае́ктар (prajéktar) [masculine] (Belarusian), прое́ктор (proéktor) [masculine] (Bulgarian), projector [masculine] (Catalan), 放映機 (Chinese Mandarin), 放映机 (fàngyìngjī) (Chinese Mandarin), projektor [masculine] (Czech), projektor [common-gender] (Danish), projector [masculine] (Dutch), projektori (Finnish), projecteur [masculine] (French), proxector [masculine] (Galician), Projektor [masculine] (German), προβολέας (provoléas) [masculine] (Greek), प्रक्षेपित्र (prakṣepitra) (Hindi), projektor (Hungarian), vetítő (Hungarian), skjávarpi [masculine] (Icelandic), teilgeoir [masculine] (Irish), proiettore [masculine] (Italian), プロジェクター (purojekutā) (Japanese), 映写機 (eishaki) (alt: えいしゃき) (Japanese), 投影機 (tōeiki) (alt: とうえいき) (Japanese), 투영기 (tuyeonggi) (alt: 投影機) (Korean), 프로젝터 (peurojekteo) (Korean), 영사기 (yeongsagi) (alt: 映寫機) (Korean), прое́ктор (proéktor) [masculine] (Macedonian), pūwhiti (Maori), projecteux [masculine] (Norman), rzutnik [masculine] (Polish), projektor [masculine] (Polish), projetor [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), projector [Portugal, masculine] (Portuguese), proiector [neuter] (Romanian), прое́ктор (proéktor) [masculine] (Russian), про̀јектор [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pròjektor [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), projektor [masculine] (Slovak), projektor [masculine] (Slovene), proyector [masculine] (Spanish), projektor [common-gender] (Swedish), yansıtım aygıtı (Turkish), gösterici (Turkish), projektör (Turkish), проє́ктор (projéktor) [masculine] (Ukrainian), máy chiếu (Vietnamese), taflunydd (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-projector-en-noun-oaivTg~I Disambiguation of People: 44 18 37 0 Disambiguation of 'optical device': 1 98 1 0
  3. (psychology) One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others. Categories (topical): Psychology, People Translations (psychology: one who projects): projisoija (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-projector-en-noun-W707YWNJ Disambiguation of People: 44 18 37 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -or Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 10 42 15 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 21 13 47 19 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -or: 25 21 41 13 Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences Disambiguation of 'psychology: one who projects': 12 19 67 3
  4. (mathematics) An operator that forms a projection. Categories (topical): Mathematics Translations (maths: operator that forms a projection): projektio-operaattori (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-projector-en-noun-5UVkbVPm Topics: mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of 'maths: operator that forms a projection': 2 4 4 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: projectour [obsolete, rare] Derived forms: film projector, movie projector, overhead projector, pico projector, slide projector, star projector, video projector

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          "code": "mi",
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "optical device",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
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      "word": "pico projector"
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          "ref": "1838, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess",
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      "sense": "one who devises or suggests a project",
      "word": "aloitteentekijä"
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      "word": "projektor"
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      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "projector"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "放映機"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fàngyìngjī",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "放映机"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "projektor"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "projektori"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "projecteur"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "proxector"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Projektor"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "provoléas",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "προβολέας"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "prakṣepitra",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "प्रक्षेपित्र"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "projektor"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "vetítő"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skjávarpi"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "teilgeoir"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "proiettore"
    },
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "purojekutā",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "プロジェクター"
    },
    {
      "alt": "えいしゃき",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "eishaki",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "映写機"
    },
    {
      "alt": "とうえいき",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tōeiki",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "投影機"
    },
    {
      "alt": "投影機",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "tuyeonggi",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "투영기"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "peurojekteo",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "프로젝터"
    },
    {
      "alt": "映寫機",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "yeongsagi",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "영사기"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "proéktor",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "прое́ктор"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "pūwhiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "projecteux"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rzutnik"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "projektor"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "projetor"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "projector"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "proiector"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "proéktor",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "прое́ктор"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "про̀јектор"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pròjektor"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "projektor"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "projektor"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "proyector"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "projektor"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "yansıtım aygıtı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "gösterici"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "projektör"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "projéktor",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "проє́ктор"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "máy chiếu"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "optical device",
      "word": "taflunydd"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "psychology: one who projects",
      "word": "projisoija"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "maths: operator that forms a projection",
      "word": "projektio-operaattori"
    }
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    "projector"
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}

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