projector

• projectour (obsolete, rare)

Partly from Latin projector (“person who throws away”); partly directly from project +‎ -or.

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• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)

projector (plural projectors)

1. 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 4610908, 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 […].

2. 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.]
3. (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 […]

4. (mathematics) An operator that forms a projection.

From English projector.

projector

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) projector (projection device)

Probably borrowed from English projector or German Projektor.

• IPA^(key): /ˌproːˈjɛk.tɔr/
• Hyphenation: pro‧jec‧tor
• Rhymes: -ɛktɔr

projector m (plural projectoren or projectors, diminutive projectortje n)

1. A projector (projection device).

• diaprojector

projector m (plural projectores)

1. Alternative form of projetor