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developer - 5 dictionary results

de⋅vel⋅op⋅er

[di-vel-uh-per]
–noun
1. a person or thing that develops.
2. Photography. a reducing agent or solution for developing a film or the like.
3. a person who invests in and develops the urban or suburban potentialities of real estate, esp. by subdividing the land into home sites and then building houses and selling them.
4. Shipbuilding. a person who lays out at full size the lines of a vessel and prepares templates from them.

Origin:
1825–35; develop + -er 1
de·vel·op·er   (dĭ-věl'ə-pər)   
n.  
  1. One that develops: a developer of hidden talent.
  2. A person who develops real estate, epecially by preparing a site for residential or commercial use.
  3. A chemical used to render visible the image recorded on a photosensitive surface.

Developer

De*vel"op*er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, develops.

2. (Photog.) A reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible.

Developer

De*vel"op*er\, n. One that develops; specif.: (a) (Photog.) A chemical bath or reagent used in developing photographs. (b) (Dyeing) A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber.

developer
programmer

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