(publishing, printing) The copy that serves as the controlling (master) version among a set of copies (as, for example, the master proof to which edits from the authors' proofs are transferred, or an analogous master manuscript with transferred edits).

plural of master copy

(film) A film recording of an entire dramatized scene, from start to finish, from a camera angle that keeps all the players in view.

plural of master shot

plural of Master of the Rolls

The President of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Civil Division, and Head of Civil Justice; a judge who is second in seniority in England and Wales only to the Lord Chief Justice.

Synonym of Captain Obvious

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see master, mint. / The chief executive of the national mint corporation in charge of coining coinage of legal coin tender.

plural of master clock

A precision clock that provides timing signals to synchronise slave clocks as part of a clock network.