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compositor

/kəmˈpɒzɪtə(ɹ)/

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From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.

noun compositors

A person who sets type; a typesetter. Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
One who, or that which, composes or sets in order. I work as an image compositor.
A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.

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@misc{compositor_2026,
  title = {compositor},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/compositor},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}