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compositor's case, n.

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

sample sentences

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

semantic pointers

domain of synset (topic)

printing

hypernym

receptacle