MOVIE PROJECTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does movie projector mean? 

• MOVIE PROJECTOR (noun)
  The noun MOVIE PROJECTOR has 1 sense:

1. projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures

  Familiarity information: MOVIE PROJECTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOVIE PROJECTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cine projector; film projector; movie projector

Hypernyms ("movie projector" is a kind of...):

projector (an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen)

Meronyms (parts of "movie projector"):

lamp house; lamp housing; lamphouse (housing that holds a lamp (as in a movie projector))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "movie projector"):

bioscope (a kind of early movie projector)