projector
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- projectour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
[edit]Partly from Latin projector (“person who throws away”); partly directly from project + -or.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]projector (plural projectors)
- Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something. [from 16th c.]
- 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, “That Church-governement is Prescrib’d in the Gospell, and that to Say Otherwise is Unsound”, in The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 4:
- So far is it from the kenne of theſe wretched projectors of ours that beſcraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church.
- 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:
- [A]s the Doctor neither did this, nor yet sent him an answer, the projector wrote a second letter […].
- 1838, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess:
- […] either the work of the winter storms, or perhaps the victims of some extensive but desultory scheme of denudation, which the projector had not capital or perseverance to carry into full effect.
- An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen. [from 19th c.]
- That which projects or launches something.
- a depth charge projector
- (psychology) One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others.
- 1982, The Gestalt Journal, volume 5, page 44:
- Projectors attempt to get rid of unwanted feelings, only it does not work; they still experience the unwanted feelings […]
- (mathematics) An operator that forms a projection.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]one who devises or suggests a project
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optical device
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psychology: one who projects
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maths: operator that forms a projection
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Chinese
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: pou6 zet1 taa2 / pou6 zek1 taa2
- Cantonese Pinyin: pou6 dzet7 taa2 / pou6 dzek7 taa2
- Guangdong Romanization: pou6 zéd1 ta2 / pou6 zég1 ta2
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰou̯²² t͡sɛːt̚⁵ tʰaː³⁵/, /pʰou̯²² t͡sɛːk̚⁵ tʰaː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
[edit]projector
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) projector (projection device)
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably borrowed from English projector or German Projektor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]projector m (plural projectoren or projectors, diminutive projectortje n)
- a projector (projection device)
Derived terms
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]projector m (plural projectores)
- Alternative form of projetor
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