compositor's case

1. 1.

   (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers

   “for English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters”

   Synonymscasetypesetter's case

   Broaderreceptacle

   printing

Questions about compositor's case

What does compositor's case mean?

compositor's case means "(printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers".

What is another word for compositor's case?

Close synonyms include case, typesetter's case. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is compositor's case a common word?

compositor's case is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.