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FILM PROJECTOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures
Synonyms:
cine projector; film projector; movie projector
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("film projector" is a kind of...):
projector (an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen)
Meronyms (parts of "film 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 "film projector"):
bioscope (a kind of early movie projector)