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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A type of software that maintains a close correspondence between the screen image and the printed image.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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phrase
Acronym of what you see is what you get.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
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phrase
Alternative letter-case form of WYSIWYG.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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adjective
relating to or being a word processing system that prints the text exactly as it appears on the computer screen
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
Coined by computer typesetter John W. Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s.
Across languages
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