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viewer

viewer

39 3.5
Software that shows images, documents or videos without editing
  • noun
  • /ˈvjuːər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : visualizador
  • The new image viewer allows users to easily open and view high-resolution photographs.
  • software viewer

Examples

  • Many of these clients can be linked to external viewers or software.

    Academic text (1995)
  • It's just trying to make it a little easier for the viewer to understand what's happening.

    Blog text (6)
  • The viewer must be able to see the program.

  • All right, match the viewer settings to the signal.

  • Could you take the photos and load them in the viewer?

  • It needs to have a profile viewer and I also want a way to see all the users on the network.

  • The feeds are localized to the viewer.

  • Yet even this debate that is apparent to the thoughtful viewer of Jaar's project is not the whole story.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Viewers may interact with a software agent that hunts out investments based on the viewers' preferences.

    Academic text (1997)
  • We've got image viewer, a couple of web browsers, Chromium and Firefox.

Antonyms

editor
  • Specialized
41 3.5

A program for making and changing text or pictures on a computer

How Capable

web browser
  • Specialized
19 2.4
player
  • Specialized
220 1.6
reader
41 3.2
viewer
  • Specialized
39 3.5

Surface Forms

viewer singular
viewers plural

Morphology

viewer = view (transparent) = view + er

Software named by the productive suffix '-er' applied to 'view' to indicate a program that displays content for viewing; the formation is directly predictable.

Etymology

Viewer comes from view 'to see' plus -er 'one who' or 'thing that does'. So in computing a viewer is a program or app that shows images, PDFs, or videos so you can look at them without changing them.