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Webster 1913 Edition


Viewer

View′er

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Noun.
1.
One who views or examines.
2.
(Law)
A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.
3.
The superintendent of a coal mine.
[Eng.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Viewer

VIEWER

,
Noun.
vu'er.
1.
One who views, surveys or examines.
2.
In New England, a town officer whose duty is to inspect something; as a viewer of fences, who inspects them to determine whether they are sufficient in law.

Definition 2024


viewer

viewer

English

Noun

viewer (plural viewers)

  1. Someone that views some spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.
    • 2010, Antonio Saggio, A Secret van Gogh: His Motif and Motives, ISBN 9781447507932, 11:
      This sensation of an object becoming alive is a characteristic that, I believe, seizes all viewers of a van Gogh. The Bible goes beyond being a simple still-life object to become a living thing, an expression of strength, an existence that emanates from itself, beyond the painting surface to participate in our very lives.
  2. Someone who watches television.
  3. Any optical device used to view photographic slides.
  4. (computing) A program that displays the contents of a file of digital images; an image viewer or file viewer.

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