Synonyms

overhead projector

British

noun

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

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Each section fills out the fuller picture as though Cregger is layering transparencies on top of an overhead projector.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

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

My instructor, Donald Defier, a gnomish balding man, paced at the front of the lecture hall and flipped on an overhead projector.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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