lab technician

noun

variants or less commonly laboratory technician or lab tech

plural lab technicians also laboratory technicians or lab techs

: a person employed by a laboratory (see laboratory sense 1a) to perform various tasks (such as conducting experiments or tests, analyzing data, or maintaining equipment) under the supervision of a manager or lead researcher

Lab technicians … analyze specimens one at a time under a microscope.

—Carrie Gottlieb

Using methods invented in the mid-1980's, laboratory technicians can identify precise genetic markers from bits of biological evidence …

—C. J. Chivers

If your blood contains such antibodies, the test will … change color, whereupon the lab tech will repeat the experiment.

—Rian Malan

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above