projector

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Noun

projector (plural projectors)

1. Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something. [from 16th c.]
   • 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. (maths) An operator that forms a projection.

Translations

• French: projecteur
• German: Projektor
• Russian: прое́ктор
• Spanish: proyector

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