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Optician   /ɑptˈɪʃən/   Listen
Optician

noun
1.
A worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision.  Synonym: lens maker.






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"Optician" Quotes from Famous Books



... little likely to reap results of any utility. He argues that, since the planets, stars, and nebulae have been scanned by Herschel and Rosse, with their gigantic mirrors, and at Pulkova and Greenwich with refractors whose construction has taxed to the utmost the ingenuity of the optician and mechanic, it must be utterly useless for an unpractised observer to direct a telescope of moderate power to the examination ...
— Half-hours with the Telescope - Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a - Means of Amusement and Instruction. • Richard A. Proctor

... Reader, in No. 330 of the MIRROR, is informed that the identical telescope which he mentions is now in the possession of Mr. J. Davies, optician, 101, High-street, Mary-le-bone, where it may be seen in a finished and perfect state. It is reckoned the best and most complete of its size ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 12, No. 336 Saturday, October 18, 1828 • Various

... went to an optician the other day to change the glasses of his spectacles, which had become too weak. He was given ...
— The Youth's Companion - Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 • Various

... me with one of his best objectives if the price is not ruinous—I should like to compare it with my 1/12 inch of Ross. [In this connection it may be noted that he himself invented a combination microscope for laboratory use, still made by Crouch the optician. (See "Journal of Queckett Micr. Club" ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley

... an equal burden. In addition to arms and provisions he carried a powerful binocular, the spoil of a wrecked optician's shop in Cincinnati. ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England



Words linked to "Optician" :   lens maker, skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker



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