Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who finds or shows a track or path; a guide.
  • noun One who or that which pursues or hunts by following the track or trail; a trailer.
  • noun One who observes and follows.
  • noun One who tracks or tows a boat or raft, as on a river or canal.
  • noun In organ-building, a thin strip or ribbon of wood used to transmit a pulling motion from one lever to another: opposed to sticker, which acts by pushing. See cut under organ.
  • noun pl See sticker, 6.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
  • noun (Mus.) In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
  • noun In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
  • noun computing A type of computer software for composing music by aligning samples on parallel timelines.
  • noun computing A musician who writes music in a tracker.
  • noun computing A computer program that monitors something.
  • noun finance A tracker mortgage.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who tracks down game

Etymologies

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to track + -er

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  • The term "Tracker" is also used to describe a set of early music composing software, or sequecers, made popular by the classic "Fast tracker" in the early nineties.

    With trackers you produce "modules" (MOD) - the tunes, songs or compositions.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker

    June 8, 2009