overhead projector

English

Noun

overhead projector (plural overhead projectors)

1. A projector that projects an image over the heads of the viewers onto a screen in front of them.

   Synonym: OHP

   • 1992 August 2, Peter H. Lewis, “Low-Tech Renewal”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The reality is that the typical classroom teacher still uses a blackboard and chalk. Indeed, despite the excitement over high-tech devices, most classroom equipment is decidedly low-tech: small-screen television sets, mimeograph machines, monaural phonograph record players, overhead projectors with grease pencils, 16-millimeter projectors, reel-to-reel tape players, filmstrip projectors.

Descendants

• → German: Overheadprojektor (partial calque)

Translations

projector that projects an image over the heads of the viewers onto a screen

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 高影機 / 高影机 (gou¹ jing² gei¹)

  Mandarin: 幻燈機 / 幻灯机 (zh) (huàndēngjī)

• Danish: overheadprojektor
• Dutch: overheadprojector (nl) m
• Finnish: piirtoheitin (fi)
• French: rétroprojecteur (fr) m
• German: Tageslichtprojektor m, Overheadprojektor (de) m, Polylux (de) m
• Hungarian: írásvetítő (hu)
• Irish: osteilgeoir m
• Japanese: オーバーヘッドプロジェクタ (ōbāheddo purojekuta)
• Korean: 오버헤드 프로젝터 (obeohedeu peurojekteo)
• Norman: projecteux d'transpathenches m
• Norwegian: overheadprosjektør m
• Polish: grafoskop (pl) m, epidiaskop (pl) m, rzutnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: retroprojetor m
• Russian: диаскопи́ческий прое́ктор m (diaskopíčeskij proéktor), диапрое́ктор (ru) m (diaproéktor), проекцио́нный аппара́т m (proekciónnyj apparát), прое́ктор (ru) m (proéktor)
• Slovene: grafoskop m
• Spanish: retroproyector (es) m
• Swedish: overheadprojektor (sv) c, OH-projektor c
• Thai: เครื่องฉายภาพข้ามศีรษะ (krêuang chăai pâap kâam sĕesà)
• Vietnamese: máy chiếu hắt

See also

• document camera
• film projector
• slide projector

Further reading

• overhead projector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia