authoring

English

Verb

authoring

1. present participle and gerund of author

Noun

authoring (plural authorings)

1. The process of creating the content of a document or other content item, i.e., writing or composition.
2. The result of this process; a writing or composition.

Usage notes

The sense of the process of composition is very common in computing and multimedia. Also often in attribution: an authoring tool, i.e. a tool used for authoring.

Quotations

• 1995, Hazel Henderson, Paradigms in Progress [1]

  Hence our readings and subsequent authorings tend to be partial and one sided, [...]

• 1999, Edward W Soja, Postmetropolis [2]

  While these authorings have not gone uncontested, unopposed, unresisted, they have been hegemonic.

• 2003, A. Robert Lee, Multicultural American Literature [3]

  English-language authorings offer a complement.

• 2004, Lee Purcell, Making DVDs [4]

  The DVD authoring in this process relies on providing a digital master of the video and a time-coded VHS cassette to the person handling the authoring.

Derived terms

• authoring program
• authoring tool
• authorware
• collaborative authoring