Compositor
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person who sets type; a typesetter.
"Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there."
- 2 one who sets written material into type wordnet
- 3 One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
"I work as an image compositor."
- 4 A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.
Example
More examples"Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there."
Etymology
From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.
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