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noun
Developer  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, develops.
2.
(Photog.) A chemical bath or reagent used in developing photographs. Note: By the action of the developer, the latent image on a photographic plate or film, not perceptible to the eye after exposure in the camera, is developed and becomes visible.
3.
(Dyeing) A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber.
4.
A corporation or individual who finances or organizes a real estate development (5).





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"Developer" Quotes from Famous Books



... The action resembles the browning of a freshly-cut apple, and has been shown to be due to oxygen (activated by an oxidase, a ferment encouraging combination with oxygen) acting on the astringent colourless substance, which, like the photographic developer, pyrogallic acid, becomes ...
— Cocoa and Chocolate - Their History from Plantation to Consumer • Arthur W. Knapp
... possibilities, it was with the most intense and absorbing interest that I watched the plate under the action of the developer. Presently I saw a faint smudge of black appear in the upper part, and after that others, indistinct and wavering of outline. I held the negative up to the light. The marks were rather small, and were almost ...
— Carnacki, The Ghost Finder • William Hope Hodgson
... short period sulphurous acid has become an important element in the preparation of an excellent pyro developer for gelatine plates; and as it is more or less unstable in its keeping qualities, some easy method of preparing a small quantity which shall have a uniform strength is desirable. A method recently described in the Photographic News will afford the amateur photographer a ready way of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 • Various


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


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