<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person or thing that develops or innovates: a software developer.</li><li>Photography: a reducing agent or solution for developing a film or the like.</li><li>a person who invests in and develops the urban or suburban potentialities of real estate, especially by subdividing the land into home sites and then building houses and selling them.</li><li>Shipbuilding: a person who lays out at full size the lines of a vessel and prepares templates from them.</li></ul>