restrainer

1. 1.

   a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film

   Broaderchemical

   Narrowerpotassium bromide
2. 2.

   a person who directs and restrains

   Synonymscontroller

   Broaderperson

   Narrowernazisubduersuppressorwithholder

Other forms of restrainer

plural

restrainers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about restrainer

What does restrainer mean?

restrainer means "a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in restrainer?

restrainer has 3 syllables: re-strai-ner. The stress falls on "re".

What is another word for restrainer?

Close synonyms include controller. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is restrainer a common word?

restrainer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.