TRACKER

tracker

(noun) someone who tracks down game

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

tracker (plural trackers)

Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.

(US politics) A person employed to follow and monitor a political rival.

In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

(computing) A type of computer software for composing music by aligning samples on parallel timelines.

(computing) A musician who writes music in a tracker.

(computing) A computer program that monitors something.

(file sharing) Server software that coordinates peers in the BitTorrent protocol.

(finance) A tracker mortgage.

Anagrams

• retrack

Source: Wiktionary


Track"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game. And of the trackers of the deer Scarce half the lessening pack was near. Sir W. Scott.

2. (Mus.)

Definition: In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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