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tracker

Pronunciation: /ˈtɹækə(ɹ)/

The English word “tracker” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A person employed to follow and monitor a political rival.
  2. An Indigenous Australian employed by the law to track down fugitives and missing persons.
  3. In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
  4. A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.
  5. A musician who writes music in a tracker.
  6. A computer program that monitors something.
  7. Server software that coordinates peers in the BitTorrent protocol.
  8. A tracker mortgage.
  9. An album with the specified number of tracks.

Etymology

From track + -er.

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