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Noun editor has 2 senses
  1. editor, editor in chief - 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)
    --1 is a kind of skilled worker, trained worker
    --1 has particulars:
     anthologist; art editor; copy editor, copyreader, text editor; subeditor; managing editor; newspaper editor; redact, redactor, reviser, rewriter, rewrite man; Bowdler, Thomas Bowdler; Cattell, James McKeen Cattell
    Derived form: verb edit1
  2. editor program, editor - (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data
    --2 is a kind of application, application program, applications programme
    --2 has particulars: linkage editor; text editor
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