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A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
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technologist
Word definitions for technologist in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE educational ▪ The solution perceived by some libraries has been to bring in educational technologists to perform or assist with evaluation. ▪ Equally, an educational technologist can be one of several people: 1. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one versed in technology," 1803, from technology + -ist .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Technologist is a European popular science magazine published by Eurotech Universities since June 2014. It is produced by the Swiss media agency Large Network and published in English, French and German. It is based in Geneva and is sold in twenty countries. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Technologist \Tech*nol"o*gist\, n. One skilled in technology; one who treats of arts, or of the terms of arts.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems [syn: engineer , applied scientist ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A (l/en: scientist) or an (l/en: engineer) who specializes in a particular (l/en: technology), or who uses technology in a particular (l/en: field).
Usage examples of technologist.
It need hardly be said that this version of anarchic belligerence did not recommend itself to the engineers and technologists of the Committee of Public Safety.
They would buy all of the stuff from Green Biophysical Systems, of which Aaron Green was the founder, chief technologist, president, and treasurer.
But perhaps the technicians and technologists have been kept back because their skills are useful.
There were plenty of technologists, but few original workers extending the frontiers of human knowledge.
While one may find farmers, husbandmen, woodsmen, teachers, machinists, and truck drivers among the ranks of religious fundamentalists--metallurgists, biologists, and medical technologists tend to be in short supply in those ranks.
The medical technologists had to teach the doctors, nurses, and midwives.
Perhaps, Amuro thought, it was a characteristic of technologists in his field.
We shall arrange, as soon as possible, for you to speak with the technologists, so you may understand more fully.
Forty percent of the credentialed technologists taking that same test failed.
You’re a typical spaceman, always bludging on the scientists and technologists.
He had come the way of most lab technicians nowadays, with three years of college behind him, the last year in an approved school for medical technologists.