compositor

Noun

1. 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...
   • All Spaniards, we discovered, knew two English expressions. One was 'O.K., baby', the other was a word used by the Barcelona whores in their dealings with English sailors, and I am afraid the compositors would not print...
   • However late medieval copyists were supervised — and controls were much more lax than many accounts suggest — scribes were incapable of committing the sort of "standardized" error that was produced by a compositor who...
2. One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
   • I work as an image compositor.
3. A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.