projectors

Light-casting display devices

Projectors are devices that cast images onto a surface.

The most common type throws light through film or from a digital source onto a screen: movie projectors, slide projectors, the projector in the conference room.

The word can also refer to people who project—planners of schemes or enterprises, though this sense is now rare.

content

slides

Moves smoothly across surface

diagrams · charts · animations · footage · clips · frames · video · screen · display · visuals

equipment

LCD

Lowest shared fraction bottom

  • DLPDigital light processing
  • LEDSemiconductor that glows
  • lumenLight output measure

keystone · lens · throw · resolution · portable · mount · ceiling · brightness · contrast · zoom

illumination

beam

Structural support member

glow · intensity · spotlight · halogen · lamp · bulb · throw · candela · lux · radiance

presentation

slideshow

Sequential visual display

keynote · lecture · demonstration · workshop · webinar · speaker · audience · podium · briefing · overhead

cinema

film

Movie or coating

premiere · blockbuster · multiplex · matinee · marquee · usher · boxoffice · trailer · feature · flicks

Categories
Opposites
display output direction

projectorsscreens

Displays or filters

monitors · projection screens · televisions · displays · LED screens

light transmission

projectorscameras

Visual recording devices

receivers · video cameras · sensors · recorders · scanners

VISUAL INFORMATION FLOW (for people who project)

projectorshistorians

Scholars of the past

documentarians · archivists · chroniclers · recorders · analysts

Phrases
Family

projector

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G