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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
ed·i·tor       [ed-i-ter] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility for the editorial part of a publishing firm or of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication.
2.the supervisor or conductor of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc.: the sports editor of a newspaper.
3.a person who edits material for publication, films, etc.
4.a device for editing film or magnetic tape.

[Origin: 1640–50; < ML, LL: publisher; see edit, -tor]
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ed·i·tor       (ěd'ĭ-tər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. One who edits, especially as an occupation.
  2. One who writes editorials.
  3. A device for editing film, consisting basically of a splicer and viewer.
  4. Computer Science A program used to edit text or data files.


[Late Latin ēditor, publisher, from Latin ēditus, past participle of ēdere, to publish; see edit.]

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editor

noun
1. a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) 
2. (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data [syn: editor program

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

editor application
A program used to edit a document.
Different types of document have different editors, e.g. a text editor for text files, an image editor for images, an HTML editor for web pages, etc. The term can be used for pretty much any kind of data modification, e.g. a disk sector editor which operates directly on the hard disk, bypassing the filesystem.
(2007-07-11)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Editor

Ed"i*tor\, n. [L., that which produces, from edere to publish: cf. F. ['e]diteur.] One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

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