overhead projector

noun

: a projector for projecting onto a vertical screen magnified images of graphic material on a horizontal transparency illuminated from below

called also overhead

Examples of overhead projector in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But that didn’t stop voters from embracing it, giving the show 19 nominations, including one for Dickey’s turn as the gruff town hall worker who is the Spielberg of overhead projector presentations. — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

The overhead projector Who can forget the projector that traveled around the room on a rolling cart? — Sarah Scott, Parents, 30 June 2026

Nancy using an overhead projector to mark up a map of Hawkins, noting all the territory Hopper has re-patrolled in search of Vecna, becomes a tidy little metaphor for all the backward gazing. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025

Next, the student model encodes random noise inputs into optical generative seeds, which are phase patterns representing the phase information of light—think of each seed as something like a slide for an overhead projector. — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1938, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for overhead projector

• bisector
• collector
• connector
• corrector
• defector
• deflector
• detector
• director
• dissector
• effector
• ejector
• elector