technician
NounUS[tek-nish-uhn]/tɛkˈnɪʃən/3 syllables
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Noun (2)technicians
- someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical processType of skilled worker, trained workerKinds techie, dental technician, webmaster, sound technician, animator
- someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic techniqueType of expert
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Translations
Noun technical specialist
- Spanish
- técnico
- French
- technicien
- German
- Techniker
- Italian
- tecnico
- Portuguese
- técnico
- Turkish
- teknisyen
- Russian
- те́хник téxnik
- Arabic
- فَنِّيّ fanniyy
- Chinese
- 技术员 jìshùyuán
- Japanese
- 技術者 gijutsusha
22 more languages
- Dutch
- technicus
- Polish
- technik
- Swedish
- tekniker
- Greek
- τεχνικός technikós
- Korean
- 기술자 gisulja
- Indonesian
- teknisi
- Vietnamese
- kĩ thuật viên
- Hungarian
- technikus
- Portuguese (PT)
- técnico
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 技術員 jìshùyuán
- Catalan
- tècnic
- Czech
- technik
- Danish
- tekniker
- Esperanto
- teknikisto
- Finnish
- teknikko
- Georgian
- ტექნიკოსი ṭekniḳosi
- Hebrew
- טֶכְנַאי tekhnaí
- Latvian
- tehniķis
- Romanian
- tehnician
- Serbo-Croatian
- tehničar
- Welsh
- technegwr
- Yiddish
- טעכניקער tekhniker
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Tech·ni′cian noun
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. 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC, 1913 supplement