editor

Etymology

From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

noun

  1. A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
  2. A copy editor.
  3. A person who edited a specific document.
    John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.
  4. A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
    John is the city editor at the Daily Times.
  5. A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
  6. (computing) A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
    The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor.
  7. (television, cinematography) Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

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