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depicter

depicter noun: one who, or that which, depicts (a specified subject).

Noun

depicter (plural depicters)

  1. One who, or that which, depicts (a specified subject).
    • One of the nodes in a depiction is identified as the depictee; depictions describe their depictee in terms of their other nodes, which are known as depicters.1977, IJCAI-77: 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence-1977: Proceedings of the Conference, page 99
    • In the depiction D-HUMAN, N-ARM acts as a depicter; at the same time, in D-ARM, N-ARM is the depictee—the subject of the depiction.1979, N. V. Findler, editor, Associative Networks: Representation and Use of Knowledge by Computers, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 24
    Antonyms:
    depictee

Antonyms of depicter

Forms of depicter

pluraldepicters

Origin of depicter

From depict + -er.

Questions about depicter

What does depicter mean?
Depicter means one who, or that which, depicts (a specified subject).
What part of speech is depicter?
Depicter is a noun.
What is the plural of depicter?
The plural of depicter is depicters.

Words near depicter in the dictionary

  1. depictability
  2. depictable
  3. depicted
  4. depictee
  5. depictees
  6. depicter
  7. depicters
  8. depicting
  9. depiction
  10. depictional
  11. depictions

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