symmetrician

English

Alternative forms

• symmetrian

Etymology

From symmetric +‎ -ian.

Noun

symmetrician (plural symmetricians)

1. One who studies the symmetry of parts.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

     the Symmetricians iudged his bodie to be aboue 200. cubits

References

• “symmetrician”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.