projector

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a device that projects an enlarged image or beam of light onto a surface

   The teacher connected her laptop to the classroom projector.

2. 2
   noun

   dated: a person who devises, proposes, or promotes a scheme or enterprise

   Investors distrusted the bold projector and his promises of effortless profit.

Common collocations

• overhead projector Adjective + noun

From project + the agent or instrument suffix -or, with influence from Latin projector ("one who throws forward"). The older noun named a person who put forward a scheme; the modern device similarly throws or casts light and images onto a surface.

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