noun
- people who prepare specimens for scientific study, display, or preservation, especially in museums or laboratories
Usage: scientific/technical
Examples
- The museum’s preparators carefully cleaned and mounted the fossil specimens.
- Skilled preparators are essential for creating educational displays in natural history museums.
- The laboratory hired two new preparators to handle the increased workload.
- Preparators use specialized tools to preserve delicate biological samples.
- The preparators worked for months to ready the dinosaur skeleton for exhibition.
- Museum preparators must have knowledge of both biology and chemistry.