tracker
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹækə(ɹ)/
The English word “tracker” has 9 meanings listed here.
noun
- A person employed to follow and monitor a political rival.
- An Indigenous Australian employed by the law to track down fugitives and missing persons.
- In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
- A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.
- A musician who writes music in a tracker.
- A computer program that monitors something.
- Server software that coordinates peers in the BitTorrent protocol.
- A tracker mortgage.
- An album with the specified number of tracks.
Etymology
From track + -er.
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