noun
- a person who prepares specimens for scientific study or museum display
Usage: scientific; technical
Examples
- The museum preparator carefully cleaned the fossil before mounting it.
- She worked as a preparator in the natural history museum’s paleontology department.
- The preparator used special tools to preserve the bird specimen.
- After years of training, he became a skilled preparator of anatomical models.
- The preparator’s expertise was essential for the dinosaur exhibit.
- Museum preparators must have knowledge of chemistry and biology.