Meaning compositor
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compositor"a typesetter engaged in picking up arranging and distributing letters or type in a printing office," 1560s, agent noun from past participle stem of Latin componere (see composite).
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compositorA typesetter in a Renaissance print shop. To speed the printing process, most of Shakespeare's plays appear to have been set by multiple compositors. As Greenblatt notes, "Compositors fr [..]
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compositora typesetter.
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compositorThe worker responsible for setting (composing) the type used to print a book or other publication (see this example, courtesy of the Cary Collection). In letterpress, the compositor holds the composin [..]
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compositorSee typesetter.
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compositorSee typesetter
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compositorIn a print shop, the worker who arranges type in preparation for printing.
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compositor(n) one who sets written material into type
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