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preparator

[ pri-par-uh-ter, -pair- ]

noun

  1. a person who prepares a specimen, as an animal, for scientific examination or exhibition.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of preparator1

1755–65; < Late Latin ±è°ù²¹±ð±è²¹°ùÄå³Ù´Ç°ù preparer, equivalent to ±è°ù²¹±ð±è²¹°ùÄå ( re ) to prepare + -tor -tor
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Stefan Selzer an author on the project who prepared the specimen said: “As a preparator I have worked on more than 60 pterosaur specimens from Solnhofen limestone. I recognized during the final prep this specimen showed features that combined characteristics of both major groups of pterosaurs, with the shortened tail as the most important diagnostic feature.â€

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Viola snagged a part-time job there as a technician and exhibition preparator, and he would have his first exhibition at the Everson in 1973.

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A work by Manuel Rodríguez-Delgado involving a climate-sealed notebook and custom shipping crates glances off the unwieldy category of preparator work, and the wall label for Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #48,†per his instructions, names the people who drew it.

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Beneath it, Blasto Onyango, head preparator of the National Museums of Kenya, found a huge hominin molar.

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But if you, private citizen of age in the state of Washington, are determined to combine your intoxicants — and, caveat preparator — you can purchase said beverages and use them as mixers with alcohol that you purchase legally at, say, a grocery store, and consume them recreationally in the privacy of your own home.

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