TECHNICIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does technician mean? 

• TECHNICIAN (noun)
  The noun TECHNICIAN has 2 senses:

1. someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process

2. someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique

  Familiarity information: TECHNICIAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TECHNICIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("technician" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "technician"):

animator (the technician who produces animated cartoons)

dental technician; denturist (someone who makes dental appliances (bridges and dentures))

soundman (a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast))

techie; tekki (a technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing))

webmaster (a technician who designs or maintains a website)

Derivation:

technique (skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity)

technique (a practical method or art applied to some particular task)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("technician" is a kind of...):

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

Derivation:

technique (skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity)

technique (a practical method or art applied to some particular task)

 Context examples 

A technician or your doctor analyzes the test samples to see if your results fall within the normal range.

(Laboratory Tests, NIH)

Emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, do specific rescue jobs.

(Emergency Medical Services, NIH)

The technician may offer you earplugs.

(MRI Scans, NIH)

A dental technician who provides dentures for patients without supervision of a dentist.

(Denturist, NCI Thesaurus)

Benoit Louppe is a chemist technician specialised in the study of these electromagnetic waves.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

The Laboratory Animal Health and Quality Control Shared Resource provides the primary conventional services including experimental animals health monitoring, maintenance of an specific pathogen free colonies, diagnostic services, disease elimination program, strict quarantine procedures, teaching and training for investigators and their technicians, consultation with investigators, and technical services.

(Laboratory Animal Health and Quality Control Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)