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overhead projector

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noun

  1. a projector that throws an enlarged image of a transparency onto a surface above and behind the person using it. Alterations and additions can be made to the material on the transparency while the projector is in use

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Last Friday, UW’s first-year head coach stood at the front of a meeting room, between rows of Huskies facing an overhead projector.

From Seattle Times Jan. 11, 2022

A stranger in a lab coat lectured at us using an overhead projector.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2021

On an overhead projector, he showed some past National Weather Service predictions; about one-third of them were wrong.

From New York Times Oct. 17, 2016

An overhead projector beamed a movie onto the dummy to her left, turning it into a perky woman who looked like Haley would probably look a couple of years after she graduated from college.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

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