a person qualified to prescribe and dispense glasses and contact lenses, and to detect eye diseases (ophthalmic optician), or to make and supply glasses and contact lenses (dispensing optician) 配制眼镜技师(ophthalmic optician);眼镜商;眼镜制造技师(dispensing optician) ■(rare)a person who makes or sells optical instruments (罕)光学仪器制造商,光学仪器销售商 ■(US)a dispensing optician (美)配镜师
语源
late 17th cent.: from French opticien, from medieval Latin optica 'optics'