editor

Plural: editors

Noun

• A person who prepares material for publication or oversees a publication.
• 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)
• (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data
• A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
• A copy editor.
• A person who edited a specific document.
• A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
• A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
• A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
• Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

Examples

• As the self-proclaimed EDITOR of our Scrabble night, he always challenged obscure words.
• John is the city editor at the Daily Times.
• John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.
• The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor.

Synonyms

editor in chief, editor program