Viewer
['vjuːə] or ['vjuɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies.
Typist: Lucinda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who views or examines.
(n.) A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.
(n.) The superintendent of a coal mine.
Editor: Luke
Examples
- One introduced himself as Nicholas Wood, viewer at Killingworth, and then presented his companion, George Stephenson, of the same place. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There it was exhibited to select companies of female viewers, in whose gentle bosoms it awakened implacable feelings. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Editor: Patrick