A projector is a machine that projects images onto a screen or wall.
The chain is introducing digital projectors and broadcasts of live sports.
2. See also overhead projector
projector in British English
(prəˈdʒɛktə)
noun
1.
an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image of individual slides onto a screen or wall
Full name: slide 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 name: film projector, cine projector
3.
a device for projecting a light beam
4.
a person who devises projects
projector in American English
(proʊˈdʒɛktər; prəˈdʒɛktər)
noun
a person or thing that projects; specif., a machine for throwing an image on a screen, as from a transparent slide or film (sense 5) film (sense 5a)
Examples of 'projector' in a sentence
projector
Notice the same effect with a movie or slide projector.
Schneider, Hermann & Schneider, Leo The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language (1988)
They can watch films on a small projector that beams an image onto the wall.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The film projector was heading for the skip and between us we saved it.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
So we put a leaf of the thistle in our beam projector and broadcast it to the field.
Thompkins, Peter, Bird, Christopher Secrets of the Soil (1990)
He bought her a film projector and tried to design a game she could play with one hand.
Amanda Mackenzie Stuart Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age (2005)
In a dark gallery, a whirring projector throws a beam of light onto a waiting screen.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
How Use a projector to cast the enlarged image onto a wall and trace its outline before painting.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
A step beyond a single slide projector is to link two together with a fade control.
Freeman, Michael Photographers Handbook (1993)
On the back wall there was a large gilt picture frame; a projector played banned films on its blank canvas.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
There is a button on a cable protruding from the bug, like a weather man might have on his slide projector.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The whole family was thrilled to discover a projector, screen and box of home movies, and held an impromptu film show.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In other languages
projector
British English: projector /prəˈdʒɛktə/ NOUN
A projector is a machine that uses light to make films or slides appear on a screen or wall.
...a slide projector.
American English: projector
Arabic: جِهَازٌ لِعَرْض
Brazilian Portuguese: projetor
Chinese: 放映机
Croatian: projektor
Czech: projektor
Danish: fremviser
Dutch: projector
European Spanish: proyector
Finnish: kuvanheitin
French: projecteur cinéma
German: Projektor
Greek: μηχάνημα προβολής
Italian: proiettore
Japanese: プロジェクター
Korean: 프로젝터
Norwegian: fremviser
Polish: projektor
European Portuguese: projetor
Romanian: proiector
Russian: проектор
Latin American Spanish: proyector
Swedish: projektor
Thai: เครื่องฉายแผ่นสไลด์
Turkish: projektör
Ukrainian: проектор
Vietnamese: máy chiếu
All related terms of 'projector'
cine projector
a machine which projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures
film projector
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
slide projector
a machine used for projecting slides onto a screen or wall
opaque projector
an optical device that projects an enlarged image of an opaque object, such as a printed page or photographic print, onto a screen by means of reflected light
overhead projector
An overhead projector is a machine that has a light inside it and can be used to make the writing or pictures on a sheet of plastic appear on a screen or wall . The abbreviation → OHP is also used.