metrician
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of metrician
First recorded in 1375–1425, metrician is from the late Middle English word metricion. See metric 2, -ian
Example Sentences
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The historian has done nothing to undermine what the metrician does.
From Scientific American
And just as the -metrician should not undervalue the non-measurement task of the historian, so the historian does nothing to devalue the measurement of which individuals are most likely to learn fastest and best when compared to one another.
From Scientific American
“I am no metrician,” he once exclaimed; he wrote Books, songs, ditees In RIME, or else in CADENCE.
From Project Gutenberg
For a craftsman who can use all the intricate resources of good prose successfully to create an illusion that he is inspired in his least abandoned moments, it is child's play to use the more obvious devices of the metrician to similar effect.
From Project Gutenberg
Mr Kipling is a wonderful metrician; but that is not the question.
From Project Gutenberg
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