Developer
[dɪ'veləpə(r)] or [dɪ'vɛləpɚ]
Definition
(noun.) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film.
(noun.) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use).
Typed by Anatole--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, develops.
(n.) 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.
Checked by Curtis
Examples
- Some chemical, the so-called developer, must be used to bring out the hidden change and to reveal the image to our unseeing eyes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In 1844 Hunt introduced the protosulphate of iron as a developer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The practical introduction began about 1862 with the application of the alkaline developer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When the plate has been in the developer for a few seconds, the silver coating gradually darkens, and slowly but surely the image printed by the sun's rays appears. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There are many different developers in use, any one of which will effect the necessary transformation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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