Throw
A projector's throw ratio is used when installing projectors to control the size of the projected display. For example, if the throw ratio is 2:1 and the projector is fourteen feet away from the screen, then the display width will be seven feet.
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Famous quotes containing the word throw:
“The stars are putting on their glittering belts.
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow’s last embellishment.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The last step taken found your heft
Decidedly upon the left.
One more would throw you on the right.
Another still you see your plight.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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