The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mechanician \Mech`a*ni"cian\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]canicien. See
Mechanic.]
One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a
machinist.
--Boyle.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated English) One skilled in the theory or construction of machines. 2 (context dated English) One skilled in building, using, or repairing machines, or who makes machines or tools. 3 (context dated English) One skilled in mechanics. 4 (context dated English) A machinist. 5 (context dated English) A scientifically trained practitioner. 6 (context dated English) A mechanic.
Wikipedia
A mechanician is an engineer or a scientist working in the field of mechanics, or in a related or sub-field: engineering or computational mechanics, applied mechanics, geomechanics, biomechanics, and mechanics of materials. Names other than mechanician have been used occasionally, such as mechaniker and mechanicist.
The term "mechanician" is also used by the Irish Navy to refer to junior engine room ratings. In the British Royal Navy, Chief Mechanicians and Mechanicians 1st Class were Chief Petty Officers, Mechanicians 2nd and 3rd Class were Petty Officers, Mechanicians 4th Class were Leading Ratings, and Mechanicians 5th Class were Able Ratings. The rate was only applied to certain technical specialists and no longer exists.
In the New Zealand Post Office, which provided telephone service prior to the formation of Telecom New Zealand in 1987, "Mechanician" was a job classification for workers who serviced telephone exchange switching equipment. The term seems to have originated in the era of the 7A Rotary system exchange, and was superseded by "Technician" circa 1960, perhaps because "Mechanician" was no longer considered appropriate after the first Strowger switch exchanges began to be introduced in 1952 (in Auckland, at Birkenhead exchange).
It is also the term by which makers of mechanical automata use in reference to their profession.
Usage examples of "mechanician".
Nor was it true that Tish took Aggie along as a mechanician and brutally pushed her off the car because she was not pumping enough oil.
Jasper McCutcheon and his mechanician, and after standing on two wheels for an appreciable moment of time, righted herself, panting, with her nose against a post.
Salignac, the mechanician, was already on the spot confirming the damage.
At the call of Salignac, the mechanician, Hermia followed the others down the slope to the machine, leaving the Countess and Markham alone.
Vril-ya races can accomplish feats which a life spent in its practice would not enable the strongest and most skilled mechanician, born out of the pale of the Vril-ya to achieve.
Cordery, mechanician to the court of the Archduke Girard, tilted the small concave mirror on the brass device that rested on his workbench, catching the rays of the afternoon sun and deflecting the light through the system of lenses.
Some human mechanician, I daresay, eager to please the vampire lords and ladies, showed off his cleverness as proud as a peacock.
On official occasions he was always concerned to play the part of mechanician, and dressed in order to sustain that appearance.
Down below the transmission gearing gets out of order, and this prevents the mechanician from sending the trap up again.
Originally a lawyer, he was in succession a mechanician, a poet, and an editor, meeting with far less success in each of these departments than usually attends men of less varied gifts, but of more tranquil and phlegmatic composition.
But while the methods of provoking war employed by the patriotic classes are traditional, modern science has made a new and enormously more powerful thing of warfare and, as the Great War showed, even the most conservative generals on both sides are unable to prevent the gigantic interventions of the mechanician and the chemist.
Uncertainly, the mechanician wavered a moment, the fire extinguisher in his hands, hesitating from one side to the other.
While the dreadful detonations continued, sometimes exceedingly close by, the various pilots seized upon such mechanicians as they could.
Jack hearing some of this talk, which he half understood, was convulsed in silent laughter over the remarkable ideas that seemed to possess the minds of those French mechanicians and hostlers.
Then they were pushed along for a start, gathering momentum so quickly that the mechanicians dropped back to watch the dark object vanish almost wholly from their sight along the level field.