projector

[ pruh-jek-ter ]

noun

1. an apparatus for throwing an image on a screen, as a motion-picture projector or magic lantern.
2. a device for projecting a beam of light.
3. a person who forms projects or plans.
4. Archaic. a person who devises underhanded or unsound plans; schemer.

projector

/ prəˈdʒɛktə /

noun

1. an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image of individual slides onto a screen or wall Full nameslide projector
2. an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall Full namefilm projectorcine projector
3. a device for projecting a light beam
4. a person who devises projects

Word History and Origins

Origin of projector¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; project + -or ²

Example Sentences

Once everyone can see the big game, it’s important that they can hear it, tooAlthough a lot of projectors have built-in speakers—some of which are surprisingly good—nothing really beats a solid sound system to back up your impressive visuals.

From Popular-Science

A portable projector is a great way to expand your display beyond the limits of a television or laptop.

From Popular-Science

At little more than the size of a soda can, this powerful wireless projector makes everything else on the market seem like something from your 7th grade science classroom.

From Fortune

Another, called ProjectorSpot, sold projectors, while yet another, YardSteals, was a platform for home and yard equipment.

From Fortune

You could follow my friend’s lead and invest in a tiny film projector.

From Outside Online

Through a front window I saw the blue light of the running projector, making silhouettes of the children.

From The Daily Beast

Welles, who once dismissed his masterpiece Citizen Kane as “dollar-book Freud,” was nothing if not a projector.

From The Daily Beast

Fox News is on the projector screen, laptops showing the latest results are on the table, and the chicken wings are getting cold.

From The Daily Beast

A huge 35mm film projector, click-clacking in our midst, shines a red rectangle onto a screen.

From The Daily Beast

I am also aware that I may hereby cast a suspicion of the spirit of a wild projector, over the subject of this memoir.

From Project Gutenberg

Mercer jumped for the projector, but I was nearer, and in a moment I had flashed it on.

From Project Gutenberg

I judged it to be the dynamo or battery from which the projector was supplied with the light‑ray.

From Project Gutenberg

And I believed that if we could keep behind it they could not reach us with their larger projector.

From Project Gutenberg

The large projector was mounted in the bow beyond the canopy.

From Project Gutenberg