noun one who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes.
2. projector ·add. ·noun an optical instrument for projecting a picture upon a screen, as by a magic lantern or by an instrument for projecting (by reflection instead of transmission of light) a picture of an opaque object, as photographs, picture post-cards, insects, ·etc., in the colors of the object itself. in this latter form the projection is accomplished by means of a combination of lenses with a prism and a mirror or reflector. specific instruments have been called by different names, such as radiopticon, mirrorscope, balopticon, ·etc.