Etymology

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Today it means: A type of software that maintains a close correspondence between the screen image and the printed image. Full definition →

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Coined by computer typesetter John W. Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.