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text editor

text editor noun: a program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.

Noun

text editor (plural text editors)

  1. A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see text, editor.
    • Between 1620 and 1640 he worked as a text editor in the Patriarchal Press in Moscow.1976, Robert O. Crummey, “ARSENII GLUKHOI (?-1643)”, in Joseph L[eon] Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, volume 2 (Anikin - Bailov Rocks), Gulf Breeze, Fla....

text editor meaning in Tamil and Arabic

text editor in Tamil

உரைத் தொகுப்பி

text editor in Arabic

something used to edit text in computers
مُحَرِّر نُصُوص muḥarrir nuṣūṣ

Forms of text editor

pluraltext editors
alternative formtext-editor

Questions about text editor

What does text editor mean?
Text editor means a program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.
What is text editor in Tamil?
Text editor in Tamil is உரைத் தொகுப்பி. See Text editor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is text editor?
Text editor is a noun.
What is the plural of text editor?
The plural of text editor is text editors.

Words near text editor in the dictionary

  1. text box
  2. text boxes
  3. text creep
  4. text door neighbour
  5. text door neighbours
  6. text editor
  7. text editors
  8. text file
  9. text files
  10. text hand
  11. text hands

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Adapted from Wiktionary: text editor (page history and authors); text editor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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