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n. One that develops: a developer of hidden talent.

n. A person who develops real estate, epecially by preparing a site for residential or commercial use.

n. A chemical used to render visible the image recorded on a photosensitive surface.

n. A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.

n. A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land.

n. A film developer; a person who uses chemicals to create photographs from photograph negatives.

n. A liquid used in the chemical processing of traditional photos.

n. A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software.

n. One who, or that which, develops.

n. A chemical bath or reagent used in developing photographs.

n. A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber.

n. a corporation or individual who finances or organizes a real estate development{5}.

n. One who or that which develops or unfolds.

n. Specifically, in photography, the chemical bath in which a sensitized plate or paper is, after a photographic exposure to the light, immersed to develop or bring out the latent image. Developers for the ordinary dry-plate process may be divided into two principal classes, alkaline developers and ferrous-oxalate developers, the first generally employing carbonate of soda or potash in combination with pyrogallic acid, and the second using oxalate of potash with protosulphate of iron. The results obtained are practically the same with either bath, the latent image in the film being made visible, and the chemical changes induced being fixed, or made permanent in the fixing bath, which follows the developing bath. Many other chemicals may be used in development, either in combination with some of those mentioned above or in independent combinations. See photography.

n. photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film

n. someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use)

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development    developmental    develop   

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vendor    investor    entrepreneur    designer    user    manager    producer    consultant    programmer    customer