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compositor

noun
com·​pos·​i·​tor | \ kÉ™m-ˈpä-zÉ™-tÉ™r How to pronounce compositor (audio) \

Definition of compositor

: one who sets type

Examples of compositor in a Sentence

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 In my business, newspaper publishing, work that had been done by dozens of skilled and specialized workers (compositors, paste-up artists, camera operators, platemakers) could suddenly be done by one person sitting at a computer. — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, "The Great Leap Forward," 19 Jan. 2018 But Kristian Høgsberg, the original author of Wayland, pointed out on Google+ that these features were already implemented in Wayland’s compositor Weston. — Klint Finley, WIRED, "Ubuntu Mir: Is This the Future of Linux Everywhere?," 8 Mar. 2013

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First Known Use of compositor

1569, in the meaning defined above

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