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wysiwyg

wy·si·wyg

UK/ˈwɪz.iˌwɪɡ/ US/ˈwɪz.ə.wɪɡ/ uncommon

adjective

1.

relating to or being a word processing system that prints the text exactly as it appears on the computer screen

Origin

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

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