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Definition of "preparator" []

  • One who prepares specimens or exhibits for scientific study or display, as in a museum. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "preparator" in a sentence
  • "For 18 years this has been the stomping ground of fossil "preparator" Steve Jabo, who is best described as one part artist, one part scientist."
  • "Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal Rebecca Meah , a preparator at the museum, shaping a clay model of a Sauroposeidon."
  • "If you love to work with your hands AND your mind, if you are thrilled at the opportunity to discover something new with every brush or tool stroke and if you take pride in accomplishing physical perfection in a specimen your paleontologist boss thinks is impossible...become a preparator!"