Crossword clues for optician
optician
- A worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision
- Glasses specialist
- Spectacles are his specialty
- He deals in frames
- One to observe pupils very closely
- Work with artist, say, a producer of spectacles
- Whisky supplier partners Scotsman who supplies glasses
- Lens maker
- Provider of spectacles
- One who works with specs
- Vendor of frames
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Optician \Op*ti"cian\, n. [Cf. F. opticien. See Optic, a.]
One skilled in optics. [R.]
--A. Smith.One who deals in optical glasses and instruments.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, after French opticien "maker or seller of optical instruments;" see optic + -ian.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who makes or dispenses lenses, spectacles. 2 A person who sells lenses, spectacles etc.
WordNet
n. a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision [syn: lens maker]
Wikipedia
An optician, or dispensing optician, is a technical practitioner who designs, fits and dispenses corrective lenses for the correction of a person's vision. Opticians determine the specifications of various ophthalmic appliances that will give the necessary correction to a person's eyesight. Some registered or licensed opticians also design and fit special appliances to correct cosmetic, traumatic or anatomical defects. These devices are called shells or artificial eyes. Other registered or licensed opticians manufacture lenses to their own specifications and design and manufacture spectacle frames and other devices.
Corrective ophthalmic appliances may be contact lenses, spectacles lenses, low vision aids or ophthalmic prosthetics to those who are partially sighted. The appliances are mounted either on the eye as contact lenses or mounted in a frame or holder in front of the eye as spectacles or as a monocle.
Opticians may work in any variety of settings such as joint practice, hospitals, laboratories, eye care centers or retail stores. However, registered opticians have to meet standards of practice and training, commit to ongoing education, hold professional liability insurance and are held to these standards by their respective regulating bodies.
A fully credentialed optician in the United States is college educated in Optical Science and is known as an Ophthalmic Optician® (O.O.) and they are credentialed by the Society to Advance Opticianry (SAO). To achieve this nationally registered title an optician must achieve a combination of a college education, American Board of Opticianry and National Contact Lens Examiners advanced certifications, or maintain their state license in both eyewear dispensing and contact lens fitting when applicable. In the United Kingdom, an ophthalmic optician is also known as an optometrist and is regulated by the General Optical Council under the Opticians Act 1989.
Like many health care providers, opticians are regulated professionals in certain countries. The profession is often regulated by optician-specific agencies, as in Canada and some states of the U.S., or jointly with optometry such as the New Zealand Optometrist and Dispensing Opticians Board or the United Kingdom General Optical Council. Opticians may work independently or dependently with an optometrist or ophthalmologist although some opticians may work in an optical laboratory as a laboratory technical optician. Opticians convert a prescription for the correction of a refractive error into an ophthalmic lens or some other device, such as reading aids or telescopic lenses.
Usage examples of "optician".
One of his contact lenses fell out, he stepped on it, and was so exasperated that Martha Nieves had to take him to San Ignacio Opticians, where they solved his problem with a pair of normal glasses.
But modern opticians improved their microscopes, and microscopists greatly improved their methods.
I need engineers, metallurgists, meteorologists, boatbuilders, chemists, opticians.
The instrument is a very powerful one, and, like the smaller one we looked through before, was made by Fraunhofer, a famous optician at Munich.
It took him one day and a series of visits to theatrical costumiers, opticians, a man's clothing store in the West End specialising in garments of American type and mainly made in New York to acquire a set of blue-tinted clear-vision contact lenses: two pairs of spectacles, one with gold rims and the other with heavy black frames, and both with clear lenses.
One of the recovering Victims was a skilled optician (though he never did explain what he had done on Earth that would have caused him to be victimized by the Eosi).
Her first husband, an optician, had died a year before she met Harry, and all she had done, apart from short excursions into voluntary work, was keep house for the two of them.