PROJECTOR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("projector" is a kind of...):

optical instrument (an instrument designed to aid vision)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "projector"):

epidiascope (an optical projector that gives images of both transparent and opaque objects)

front projector (a projector for digital input)

cine projector; film projector; movie projector (projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures)

overhead projector (a projector operated by a speaker; projects the image over the speaker's head)

slide projector (projector that projects an enlarged image of a slide onto a screen)

Derivation:

project (project on a screen)

projectionist (the person who operates the projector in a movie house)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An optical device for projecting a beam of light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("projector" is a kind of...):

optical device (a device for producing or controlling light)

Derivation:

projectionist (the person who operates the projector in a movie house)

Credits

Context examples:

He only desired me to observe a ruined building, upon the side of a mountain about three miles distant, of which he gave me this account: That he had a very convenient mill within half a mile of his house, turned by a current from a large river, and sufficient for his own family, as well as a great number of his tenants; that about seven years ago, a club of those projectors came to him with proposals to destroy this mill, and build another on the side of that mountain, on the long ridge whereof a long canal must be cut, for a repository of water, to be conveyed up by pipes and engines to supply the mill, because the wind and air upon a height agitated the water, and thereby made it fitter for motion, and because the water, descending down a declivity, would turn the mill with half the current of a river whose course is more upon a level.