depicter

English

Etymology

From depict +‎ -er.

Noun

depicter (plural depicters)

1. One who, or that which, depicts (a specified subject).

   Antonym: depictee

   • 1977, IJCAI-77: 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence-1977: Proceedings of the Conference, page 99:

     One of the nodes in a depiction is identified as the depictee; depictions describe their depictee in terms of their other nodes, which are known as depicters.

   • 1979, N. V. Findler, editor, Associative Networks: Representation and Use of Knowledge by Computers, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 24:

     In the depiction D-HUMAN, N-ARM acts as a depicter; at the same time, in D-ARM, N-ARM is the depictee—the subject of the depiction.

Anagrams

• decrepit, precited, redepict