tracker

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ækə(r)

Etymology

to track + -er

Noun

tracker (plural trackers)

1. One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
2. In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
3. (computing) A type of computer software for composing music by aligning samples on parallel timelines.
   • 2004, "dilvie", new.scene.org (on newsgroup alt.music.mods)

     Trackers have broken out of the demoscene, are are^[sic] now in use by thousands of professional musicians. It's not uncommon to hear about people using trackers on DJ forums, and electronic music production communities […]

   • 2008, Karen Collins, Game sound

     Although there were a few game companies outside the Amiga scene that used a tracker format (Epic Mega-Games, for instance), the majority used the better-supported MIDI.

4. (computing) A musician who writes music in a tracker.
5. (computing) A computer program that monitors something.
   1. (file sharing) Server software that coordinates peers in the BitTorrent protocol.
6. (finance) A tracker mortgage.

Translations

One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game

• Finnish: jäljittäjä
• French: pisteur (fr) m, fileur (fr) m
• Greek: ιχνηλάτης (el) (ikhnilátis) m, ανιχνευτής (el) (anikhneftís) m

• Irish: rianaí (ga) m
• Japanese: 追跡者 (ついせきしゃ, tsuisekisha)
• Portuguese: rastreador (pt) m

a light strip of wood

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• French: poursuivant, chasseur, traqueur