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Belshazzar
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English
Proper noun
en Balthazar.
Derived terms
en Belshazzaresque
en Belshazzarian
Noun
en dated An early kind of overhead projector.
en 1950 Film User Year Book 39 A projector of such unusual design as the Belshazzar is a type unto itself. Whilst it projects transparencies
en 1969 Derick Unwin Media and Methods: Instructional Technology in Higher Education 36 Some 20 years ago , Aldis introduced the Belshazzar, but it was before its time
en 1970 A. R. Meetham Information Retrieval: The Essential Technology 81 A certain British projecting device, called a Belshazzar, is used in teaching and lecturing to cast on a screen or wall whatever is depicted on its transparent table.
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