Electrician
[,ɪlek'trɪʃ(ə)n;,el-;,iːl-] or [ɪ'lɛk'trɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines.
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Definition
(n.) An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
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Examples
- This electrician appeared to want glory more than money, so it was an easy trade. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No one capable of making the improvements in the telegraph and telephone, for which we are indebted to Mr. Edison, could be other than an accomplished electrician. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I told him of my arrangement with the electrician, and said I could not sell it as a whole to anybody; but if I got enough for it, I would sell all my interest in any SHARE I might have. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the early part of 1881 there was sent from Paris to Glasgow a so-called box of electric energy for inspection and test by Sir William Thomson, the eminent electrician. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In it, however, the electrician finds a most interesting combination of metal and magnetism. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- D'Alibard, to give his countrymen a more correct translation of the works of the American electrician. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The electrician, on account of the testimony involved, lost his glory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Du Moncel, a distinguished electrician, who had written cynically about Edison's work and denied its practicability. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I remember the visit of one expert, a well-known electrician, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and who then represented a Baltimore gas company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Edison was consulting electrician for the Electric Railway Company, but neither a director nor an executive officer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For many years electricians had tried in vain to overcome this difficulty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Preece, one of the most eminent electricians in England, who, after discussing the question mathematically, said: Hence the sub-division of the light is an absolute ignis fatuus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In these he shows the power of points in draining and throwing off the electrical matter, which had hitherto escaped the notice of electricians. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But the oxide developed the phenomena now familiar to electricians, and the lamp short-circuited itself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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