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Definition of Optician
1. Noun. A worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision.
Definition of Optician
1. n. One skilled in optics.
Definition of Optician
1. Noun. A person who makes or dispenses lenses, spectacles. ¹
2. Noun. A person who sells lenses, spectacles etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Optician
1. one who makes or deals in optical goods [n -S]
Medical Definition of Optician
1. 1. One skilled in optics. 2. One who deals in optical glasses and instruments. Origin: Cf. F. Opticien. See Optic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Optician
Literary usage of Optician
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1896)
"family doctor and let him decide whether the optician is sufficient. ... There is
iu this city a refracting optician who claims to refract people referred ..."
2. Medical Men and the Law by Hugh Emmett Culbertson (1913)
"An optician is usually understood to be a person who manufactures, sells, repairs,
and dispenses instruments for the strengthening and preservation of the ..."
3. The Panorama of Professions and Trades: Or Every Man's Book by Edward Hazen (1836)
"To whom is the word optician applicable ? 3. Explain the terms in this paragraph
... What is the usual story of the origin of the invention of THE optician. ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"An interesting feature of the new institution is to be a complete optical and
mechanical instrument maker's outfit. And an optician as well as an instrument ..."
5. The Book of English Trades, and Library of the Useful Arts.: And Library of by John Souter (1818)
"THE optician makes telescopes, microscopes, spectacles, opera-glasses, reading
glasses, &c. &c. Although the ancients made few optical experiments, ..."
6. Transactions of the ... Session of the American Institute of Homœopathy by American Institute of Homeopathy Session (1899)
"Here is where the optician has made his greatest inroads into the practice of
the oculists. We have sent the patient with a prescription for the lenses, ..."
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