protractor

English

A semicircular protractor.

A circular protractor.

Noun

protractor (plural protractors)

One who, or that which, protracts, or causes protraction.
A circular or semicircular tool for drawing or measuring angles.
(surgery) An instrument formerly used in extracting foreign or offensive matter from a wound.
(anatomy) A muscle that extends an organ or part; opposed to retractor.
An adjustable pattern used by tailors.
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Translations

a circular or semicircular tool for measuring angles

Albanian: raportor (sq) m
Arabic: منقلة‎
Breton: kornventer m
Catalan: transportador m, semicercle
Chinese:
Mandarin: 量角器 (zh) (liángjiǎoqì)
Corsican: raportadore, rapurtadore
Czech: úhloměr m
Danish: vinkelmåler
Dutch: gradenboog (nl)
Esperanto: angulmezurilo
Finnish: astelevy (fi)
French: rapporteur (fr) m
German: Winkelmesser m, Winkelmaß n
Greek: μοιρογνωμόνιο (el) n (moirognomónio), γωνιόμετρο (el) n (goniómetro)
Hebrew: מד-זווית‎
Hungarian: szögmérő (hu)
Icelandic: gráðubogi m, mælibogi m, hornmál n
Ido: transportilo, angul-transportilo
Indonesian: busur derajat
Irish: uillinntomhais
Italian: goniometro (it) m, protrattore m
Japanese: 分度器 (bundoki), ぶんどき
Korean: 각도기 (ko) (gakdogi)
Kyrgyz: транспортир (ky) (transportir)
Latvian: transportieris m
Lithuanian: matlankis m

Luxembourgish: Wénkelmiesser, Gradmiesser
Macedonian: агломер m (áglomer)
Malay: jangka sudut, protraktor
Manx: uillin-howsheyder m
Maori: ine-koki
Norwegian: vinkelmåler (no)
Persian: نقاله‎ (fa)
Polish: kątomierz (pl) m
Portuguese: transferidor (pt) m
Romanian: raportor (ro) m
Russian: транспорти́р (ru) m (transportír), угломе́р (ru) m (uglomér)
Scottish Gaelic: pròtractair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: угломер m

Roman: uglomer m
Slovene: kotomer m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kutowe měritko
Spanish: transportador (es) m
Swahili: kipimapembe
Swedish: gradskiva
Tagalog: paniha
Telugu: కోణమానిని (kōṇamānini)
Turkish: açıölçer (tr)
Ukrainian: кутомір m (kutomir)
Uzbek: transportir (uz)
Welsh: onglydd m

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