Meaning

3 senses

  1. A person who sets type; a typesetter.

    one who sets written material into type

  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.

Origin

From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.

From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.

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Forms

plural: compositors
Singularcompositor
Pluralcompositors

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words
RelatedcomposeB1composerA2compositionB1compositecompositionist
Derivedcompositorial

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
compositecompositionB1compostcomposurecompote

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