Tracker

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

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
2. (computing) A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.
3. (computing) A musician who writes music in a tracker.
4. (computing) A computer program that monitors something.
5. (finance) A tracker mortgage.
6. (in combination) An album with the specified number of tracks.

Example Sentences

At the time, tracking chiptunes (i.e. using trackers) was the fundamental method of chipmusic-making.

"Typical" is the best song on this nine-tracker, and ironically, the record itself is good, but typical.

You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.

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.

Word Forms

• trackers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include monitoring, witness, issuer, issuing, plotter, transmitter.

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