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compositors

compositors is the plural of compositor.

Meaning of compositor

Noun

compositor (plural compositors)

  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.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
  2. One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
    • I work as an image compositor.
  3. A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.

Questions about compositors

What is compositors the plural of?
Compositors is the plural of compositor.

Words near compositors in the dictionary

  1. compositor
  2. compositoress
  3. compositoresses
  4. compositorial
  5. compositorially
  6. compositors
  7. compositous
  8. compositress
  9. compositresses
  10. compositries
  11. compositry

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