TYPESETTER

compositor, typesetter, setter, typographer

(noun) one who sets written material into type

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

typesetter (plural typesetters)

(historical) A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.

(historical) A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.

Synonyms

• (person who sets type): compositor

Source: Wiktionary


Type"set`ter, n.

Definition: One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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