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Developer   /dɪvˈɛləpər/   Listen
Developer

noun
1.
Someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use).
2.
Photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film.






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"Developer" Quotes from Famous Books



... clarity of the air told that daylight was near. The skyline retreated, the hills came out of the duskiness like a photograph in the developer tray. Irish dipped down the steep slope into Antelope Coulee, cursing the sprinkle of new shacks that stood stark in the dawn on every ridge and every hilltop, look where one might. He loped along ...
— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower

... arts and turn on the power in a man of being a true artist, of being a man-inventor, a man-developer and a man-mixer, daily taking part of himself and using these parts in putting ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee

... battery nor near the battery do the phenomena manifest themselves. Though the developer of light, heat, and power, the battery itself is neither luminous, hot, nor magnetic. "To explain the effects of the sun, therefore, there is not the least reason to infer that it is itself luminous, or even warm. Potential action generated in ...
— New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces • Henry Raymond Rogers

... myself for a long time been in the habit of using a weak solution of the protonitrate of iron in conjunction with acetic acid for positive pictures; for, although I do not consider it so good a developer as that made according to the formula of DR. DIAMOND, it produces very good pictures; occupies very little time in preparing, and will moreover keep good for a much longer time than ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 • Various

... whispered Kurt, shaking with the effort to subdue his feelings. "Anderson is fine, big, square—a developer of the Northwest. Not an enemy! He's our friend. Oh! if only you had an American's eyes, just for a minute!... Father, I ...
— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey

... disappointed because the plate, when examined ever so carefully, shows not the slightest change in appearance. The change is there, but the unaided eye cannot detect the change. Some chemical, the so-called "developer," must be used to bring out the hidden change and to reveal the image to our unseeing eyes. There are many different developers in use, any one of which will effect the necessary transformation. When the plate ...
— General Science • Bertha M. Clark



Words linked to "Developer" :   short-stop, creator, photographic equipment, stop bath, develop, short-stop bath



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