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compositors 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Noun
/kəmˈpäzitər/,
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compositors, plural;
  1. A person who arranges type for printing or keys text into a composing machine

  1. (compositor) one who sets written material into type
  2. (Compositor) Compositing is the combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images, often to create the illusion that all those elements are parts of the same scene. ...
  3. (compositor) A person who sets type; a typesetter
  4. (Compositor) In a print shop, the worker who arranges type in preparation for printing.
  5. (COMPOSITOR) A 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 frequently followed their own standards in spelling and punctuation. ...
  6. (Compositor) A person who sets, corrects and distributes type. The work of operating a hand-press was performed by a pressman.
  7. (compositor) An individual who creates composites.
  8. (compositor) Containers that allow the manipulation of a set of elements as a whole and defines their relative order. Compositors include xs:sequence, xs:choice, and xs:all. Compositors may be included in other compositors to form complex combinations (with some limitations). ...
  9. A compositor is a pattern that can be used to combine other patterns. RELAX NG has three basic compositors: group, choice, and interleave. A fourth compositor, mixed, is a shortcut for interleave with an embedded text pattern.
  10. The typesetters of Dickens’s journals – for most of the period in question – employed by Charles Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand (moving to Duke St., Lincoln’s inn Fields, c. 1868). They set up the proofs and final pages of the journal using ‘hot metal’/mechanical typesetting procedures.