overhead projector

noun

Updated on: 8 Apr 2018

Definition of overhead projector

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

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Recent Examples of overhead projector from the Web

Why is the play staged with an overhead projector in an old-fashioned classroom?

— pam kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, "At Diversionary, 'The Happiest Place on Earth' portrays family drama, and it's no Cinderella story," 25 Mar. 2018
Using his blue marker, Anderson is writing across the overhead projector film the equations that describe this motion, according to basic laws of physics like the conservation of energy and angular momentum.

— jenny vrentas, SI.com, "The Launching of Matt Patricia," 23 Jan. 2018
Sister Cecil, last name Rickert, was a whiz of a math teacher who favored the overhead projector.

— jim stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Stingl: School Sisters of Notre Dame new archive is a chance to look up my high school nuns," 12 Jan. 2018
Several trends have been spotted, and Coyle, with an overhead projector and film, explains Cincy’s response for each.

— andy benoit, SI.com, "24 Hours With ... Vontaze Burfict, Bengals Linebacker," 1 Nov. 2017
With Rob Whisman, in which a sweaty-looking comedian tries to solve the world’s problems on an overhead projector.

— andrew rice, Daily Intelligencer, "Preet Bharara Is Now in the Trump-Opposition Business," 3 Oct. 2017
But other items — textbooks, overhead projectors, chemistry beakers and microscopes — were taken to the city landfill and burned or dumped, residents said.

— Alaska Dispatch News, "The last kid in Cold Bay," 8 Aug. 2015

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