Crossword clues for technician
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Technician \Tech*ni"cian\, n. a person trained or skilled in the technical details of a particular art or science, especially one skilled at operating, maintaining, or repairing equipment, in contrast to the theory or informational content of a craft; -- formerly also called a technicist.
Note: In computer software companies, individuals skilled at the details of using programs and employed to help customers to install or use software or troubleshoot software problems for are also called technicians.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1833, "person expert in the technicalities of some question," from technic + -ian. Meaning "person skilled in mechanical arts" is recorded from 1939.
Wiktionary
n. A person who studies, professes or practices technology.
WordNet
n. someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process
someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique
Wikipedia
A technician is a worker in a field of technology who is proficient in the relevant skills and techniques, with a relatively practical understanding of the theoretical principles.
Technician is the student newspaper of North Carolina State University. Its first edition was published in 1920, and it has been published continuously since that date, becoming a daily paper in fall 1988.
Usage examples of "technician".
As the technician enabled his ejection seat, his weapons officer strapped himself into the small aft cockpit.
This aroused the normally mild-mannered and unexcitable technician to the point where he completely forgot leaving the apocalyptic sandwich behind.
Technician Arvo Gaspar was so deeply smitten that he cleverly hatched a complicated deception, and they eventually married.
For the order from NEADS to Otis to place F-15s at battle stations, see NEADS audio file,Weapons Director Technician position, channel 14, 8:37:15.
NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position, channel 7, 9:21:10.
For first quote, see NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position, channel 5, 9:35:50.
NEADS audio file, Identification Technician position, recorder 1, channel 7, 9:41.
Television requires the existence of studio technicians, narrators and others in the transmitting side - and the availability of a viewer in the receiving side.
At the Marine Corps, Air Station there, she was assigned to the Second Marine Air Wing, a Harrier jet squadron, for five weeks of on-the-job training while awaiting the next scheduled start of avionics technician class.
Green-shirted avionics technicians swarmed over it as it rolled to a stop, popping panels off of it to find the cause of the stuck aileron.
Al Bayse, computer technician for the FBI, had been the only cop at the CPSR Roundtable, dragged there with his arm bent by Dorothy Denning.
Radhakrishnan had occupied himself with implanting the biochip, a lesser surgeon - more of a technician, really - had drilled a few holes through the disembodied chunk of skull and implanted a plastic connector.
Although there are several excellent scientific works dealing in a detailed manner with the cacao bean and its products from the various view points of the technician, there is no comprehensive modern work written for the general reader.
Bernard Barker shifts nervously as in right-angular time a future president metamorphoses the plumbers into the cesspool cleaners: but now, inside the Watergate, the Illuminati bug is unnoticed by those planting the CREEP bug, although both were subsequently found by the technicians installing the BUGGER bug.
With any luck Pathologist Murchison would believe, and go on believing, that Cha Thrat was a self-opinionated maintenance technician and one-time trainee nurse with delusions of grandeur and, for the time being at least, the team leader was leaving her ears unpinned.