compositor

noun
/kəmˈpɒzɪtə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.

  1. derived from compositor
  2. borrowed from compositeur

Definitions

  1. A person who sets type

    A person who sets type; a typesetter.

    • All Spaniards, we discovered, knew two English expressions. One was 'O.K., baby', the other was a word used by the Barcelona whores in their dealings with English sailors, and I am afraid the compositors would not print it.
  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)…

    A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for compositor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA