DEVELOPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does developer mean? 

• DEVELOPER (noun)
  The noun DEVELOPER has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: DEVELOPER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEVELOPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("developer" is a kind of...):

creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)

Derivation:

develop (change the use of and make available or usable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("developer" is a kind of...):

photographic equipment (equipment used by a photographer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "developer"):

short-stop; short-stop bath; stop bath (an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer)

Derivation:

develop (make visible by means of chemical solutions)

 Context examples 

Due to no statistically-significant difference between standard triple-drug HIV therapies and the same therapy with capravirine, its development was discontinued by the developer.

(Capravirine, NCI Thesaurus)

A developer, supplier and distributor of reagents and assays for biopharmaceutical and academic research.

(BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus)

Provides caBIG application developers with powerful security tools to allow application developers to integrate security with minimal coding effort.

(Common Security Module, NCI Thesaurus)

Gustavo Alencastro Cruzeiro, a geneticist at the University of São Paulo’s Ribeirão Preto Medical School and lead developer of the method, said it was faster and cheaper than similar techniques used in developed countries.

(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)

If you are not attached or dating, the full moon in Virgo on March 9 (plus or minus four days) may announce the choice of a collaborator, expert, or company (such as an advertising agency or app developer company) that you will hire to promote your work.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)