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Classroom device that shines images onto a screen
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projector
Word definitions for projector in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A projector is a device that projects an image on a surface. Projector also may refer to: Projection (linear algebra) , a linear transformation of a vector space Projector (album) , an album by Dark Tranquillity A version control system used in the Macintosh ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "one who forms a project," agent noun in Latin form from project (v.). In the optical, camera sense it is from 1884.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Projector \Pro*ject"or\, n. [Cf. F. projeteur.] One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. --L'Estrange. an optical instrument which projects an image from a transparency or an opaque image onto a projection ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen. 2 (context dated English) A person who devises or manages projects; a planner. n. 1 An optical device that projects a beam ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an optical device for projecting a beam of light an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES overhead projector slide projector COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE overhead ▪ Accompanying illustrations are, even with the help of an overhead projector , difficult to make clear. ▪ The room was silent as Manion ...
Usage examples of projector.
Stevens connected up the enormous fixed or dirigible projectors to whatever accumulator cells were available through sensitive relays, all of which he could close by means of one radio impulse.
Most of the masses, whose projectors were fed by comparatively few accumulator cells, darted away entire with a stupendous acceleration.
From the accumulators, then, the power is fed to the converters, each of which is backed by a projector.
Winthrop was only beginning to understand, picked up the emotional sequence as a sort of Empathy track surrounding the product and when the tape was played through the telethesia projector, the result was analogous to a posthypnotic suggestion to purchase the product.
On the display above the holographic projector, eight huge thrusters at the end of the linear accelerator lit up with solid, continuous pulses of blue-ion ignition.
The bracelet has microcircuits and small holographic projectors for when I need to know the time.
In the late reign he had by dint of speaking decisively to every question, by boldly impeaching the conduct of the tory ministers, by his activity in elections, and engaging as a projector in the schemes of the monied interest, become a leading member in the house of commons.
Mondschein touched a knuckle to the scanner-activator, and a conveyor belt dumped the photomicrographs into the hopper of a projector.
The old theaters that run a movie with two projectors, a projectionist has to stand right there to change projectors at the exact second so the audience never sees the break when one reel starts and one reel ran out.
They passed me by without getting my arsenal, which consisted of a sleep-gas projector camouflaged as a jumbo-sized lighter and twenty sols in two rolls of forty quarter sols each.
The sklem-the meaning of the name is of course obvious-is in essence merely a triaxial projector of nonrandomized heebijeebis.
The horizon scanner chirruped, and Alae aimed the display projector at her retina.
She had dreamed about him the night before, rolling, clanking away from her down a straight old macadam road, out in the country, fields and hills in metallic cloudlight toward the end of the day, aware of exactly how many hours and minutes to dark, how many foot-candles left in the sky, bringing behind him like ducklings a line of lamps, generators, and beam projectors each on its little trailer rig, heading for his next job, the next carnival or auto lot, still wanting nothing but the deadly amps transmogrified to light, the great white-hot death-cold spill and flood and thrust, wherever he had to go, on whatever terms he had to take, to get to keep doing it.
In front of me, in the rear of the store, was the screen, what looked like a white-painted sheet of beaverboard, and when over my shoulder I saw the battered sixteen millimeter projector I began to think that even a dime was no bargain.
Consciousness does not form the object of its understanding, it merely focuses, it is the act of attention, and, to borrow a Bergsonian image, it resembles the projector that suddenly focuses on an image.