Dictionary Definition
viewer
Noun
1 a close observer; someone who looks at
something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators
applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers
discovered a new star" [syn: spectator, witness, watcher, looker]
2 an optical device for viewing photographic
transparencies
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
-er viewNoun
- Someone that views some spectacle; an onlooker or spectator
- Someone who watches television
- Any optical device used to view photographic slides
- A program that displays the contents of a file of digital images; an image viewer or file viewer
Translations
Someone that views some spectacle; an onlooker
or spectator
- Finnish: katselija, katsoja
- French: spectateur
Someone who watches television
- Finnish: katsoja
- French: téléspectateur
Any optical device used to view photographic
slides
- Finnish: diojen katselulaite
- French: visionneur , visionneuse
A program
Extensive Definition
Things known as a Viewer include:
- For television viewers, see ratings or Nielsen ratings
- File viewer, a piece of computer software that displays the data stored in a computer file in a human-friendly form.
- Image viewer, a computer program that displays a stored graphical image.
- Pocket viewer, a model range of Personal Digital Assistants developed by Casio
- ViEWER, a computer program written for the purposes of studying visual perception in a 3-D environment
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
TV-viewer, accepter, acquirer, addressee, audience, auditor, beholder, bird-watcher,
bystander, consignee, drugstore cowboy,
eyewitness, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, getter, girl-watcher, goggler, hearer, holder, kibitzer, listener, looker, looker-on, observer, obtainer, ogler, onlooker, payee, perceiver, percipient, procurer, receiver, recipient, seer, sidewalk superintendent,
spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, taker, televiewer,
television-viewer, trustee, video-gazer, watcher, witness