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compositor
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com·pos·i·tor  (km-pz-tr)
n.
One that sets written material into type; a typesetter.
[Middle English compositur, one who composes, settler of disputes, from Anglo-Norman compositour, from Latin, writer, compiler, from compnere, composit-, to put together; see component.]
com·posi·tori·al (-tôr-l, -tr-) adj.
compositor [kəmˈpɒzɪtə]
n
(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing a person who sets and corrects type and generally assembles text and illustrations for printing Sometimes shortened to comp
compositorial  [kəmˌpɒzɪˈtɔːrɪəl] adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.compositor - one who sets written material into typecompositor - one who sets written material into type
setter, typesetter, typographer
pressman, printer - someone whose occupation is printing
Translations
compositor [kəmˈpɒzɪtəʳ] N → cajista mf
compositor [kəmˈpɒzɪtər] n → compositeur/trice m/f
compositor
n (Typ) → (Schrift)setzer(in) m(f)
compositor [kəmˈpɒzɪtəʳ] n (Typ) → compositore m
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Referring only to the New Penguin edition by Philip Edwards (1976), which espoused the now discredited theory that the many incoherences in the play can be put down to compositorial incompetence, Everett dismisses "textual questions" as secondary, declaring that sometimes "it is necessary to suppose that the textual is subordinate to the literary.
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