tracker

CEFRB1

/ˈtɹækə(ɹ)/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A person or device that follows or records movement.
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noun
Extra detail
Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.

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At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A person employed to follow and monitor a political rival.
In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
An Indigenous Australian employed by the law to track down fugitives and missing persons.

In context

Layla was an Aborigine tracker.
You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.
At the time, tracking chiptunes (i.e. using trackers) was the fundamental method of chipmusic-making.

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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[…]
2004, dilvie, “new.scene.org”, in alt.music.mods (Usenet)
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.
2008, Karen Collins, Game sound
At the time, tracking chiptunes (i.e. using trackers) was the fundamental method of chipmusic-making.
2018, Dafni Tragaki, Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music
You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.
1999, Adrian Dunn, “Re: Using a scanned picture in your demo”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)
While she and Mr. Fetterman were often in different places, she would turn up at events early so she could shoot and post photos of the crowds, the lines, the people. At most events there was a tracker: a guy from the Oz team who monitored the goings-on.
2022 December 17, Judith Newman, “John Fetterman’s TikTok Whisperer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2022

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From track + -er.