Crossword clues for projector
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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an optical instrument which projects an image from a transparency or an opaque image onto a projection screen or other surface, using an intense light and one or more lenses to focus the image. The term projector by itself is usually used for projection of transparent images by passing the light beam through the image; a projector which projects an image of an opaque object is now ususally referred to as an overhead projector. In projection of this latter form the projection is accomplished by means of a combination of lenses with a prism and a mirror or reflector. Specific instruments have been called by different names, such as balopticon, radiopticon, radiopticon, mirrorscope, etc.
Slide projector a projector for displaying images from individual transparencies (slides), each mounted in a separate frame suited to the mechanics of the projector.
movie projector a projector which displays a series of images from a roll of transparent film in rapid sucession, thus giving the impression of showing a scene with motion as it originally was recorded.
overhead projector see projector[2], above.
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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.
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 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.
WordNet
n. an optical device for projecting a beam of light
an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen
Wikipedia
Projector (stylized : projector, or on the reissue, p.r.o.j.e.c.t.o.r.) is the fourth full-length studio album by the melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity.
Projector (Zachary Williams) is a fictional character, a mutant villain from Marvel Comics.
Projector is a 19th-century term in United States patent law meaning the original true inventor. “True inventor” at the time meant the first inventor to reduce an invention to practice.
As a synonym for promoter, e.g. in the phrase "railway projectors", the term was used in a derogatory fashion in a 1790 document. In that discussion of needed changes in the patent act, 'projector' described someone who overzealously promotes an invention.
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 Programmer's Workshop
- As a synonym for promoter, e.g. in the phrase "railway projectors"
- Projector (patent) is an archaic term in US patent law meaning original inventor to reduce an invention to practice.
- Projector (comics) aka Zachary Williams, a comic book character from Marvel Comics
- Projector PSA, software and cloud-computing company
- Ceiling projector, a device used to measure the height of clouds
- Laser projector, entertainment lasers
- Flame projector, pyrotechnics projector
- Beam projector, stagelighting
- 3D projection, a method of mapping three-dimensional points to a two-dimensional plane.
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Video projector, a device that projects a video signal from computer, home theater system etc.
- Laser video projector
- LCD projector
- CRT projector
- Movie projector, a device that projects moving pictures from a strip of film
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Slide projector, a device that projects a still image with a transparent base
- Straight-tray slide projector
- Round-tray slide projector
- Slide cube projector
- Overhead projector, a device that projects a transparent image
- Handheld projector, a mobile projector
- Opaque projector, a predecessor to the overhead projector
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Planetarium projector, a device that projects images of sky objects
- Zeiss projector, a range of projectors made by Zeiss
- Magic lantern, a historic projection device
- Camera obscura, the historic ancestor to projection devices
- Enlarger, a device used to produce photographic prints from negatives
- A type of mortar (weapon)
- Livens Projector
- Northover Projector
- Holman Projector
thumb|right|200px| Acer projector, 2012 A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen.
Most projectors create an image by shining a light through a small transparent lens, but some newer types of projectors can project the image directly, by using lasers. A virtual retinal display, or retinal projector, is a projector that projects an image directly on the retina instead of using an external projection screen.
The most common type of projector used today is called a video projector. Video projectors are digital replacements for earlier types of projectors such as slide projectors and overhead projectors. These earlier types of projectors were mostly replaced with digital video projectors throughout the 1990s and early 2000s (decade), but old analog projectors are still used at some places. The newest types of projectors are handheld projectors that use lasers or LEDs to project images. Their projections are hard to see if there is too much ambient light.
Movie theaters use a type of projector called a movie projector. Another type of projector is the enlarger, a device used to produce photographic prints from negatives.
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.