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optician
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, after French opticien "maker or seller of optical instruments;" see optic + -ian .
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.