Tracker
noun
A person who follows or tracks someone or something, typically to find them or observe their course.
The police hired a tracker to find the missing child.
Often appears as...
- animal tracker
- police tracker
noun
An electronic device used to track the location of a vehicle, person, or other object it is attached to.
She used a GPS tracker to find her lost phone.
Often appears as...
- gps tracker
- fitness tracker
noun
A software tool used to monitor and graphically represent the progress of a project or task over time.
Their team used a task tracker to manage their workflow efficiently.
Often appears as...
- task tracker
- issue tracker
noun
A financial product that is designed to provide returns that match a particular stock market index.
He invested his money in a low-cost index tracker.
Often appears as...
- index tracker
- fund tracker
noun
A person who follows or tracks someone or something, typically to find them or observe their course.
The police hired a tracker to find the missing child.
Often appears as...
- animal tracker
- police tracker
noun
An electronic device used to track the location of a vehicle, person, or other object it is attached to.
She used a GPS tracker to find her lost phone.
Often appears as...
- gps tracker
- fitness tracker
noun
A software tool used to monitor and graphically represent the progress of a project or task over time.
Their team used a task tracker to manage their workflow efficiently.
Often appears as...
- task tracker
- issue tracker
noun
A financial product that is designed to provide returns that match a particular stock market index.
He invested his money in a low-cost index tracker.
Often appears as...
- index tracker
- fund tracker
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Tracking Skill
Refers to a person's ability to search for someone or something by looking for evidence of their presence.
Native tribes have expert trackers adept at reading signs of wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
The term often relates to hunting or survival skills used before modern technology.
Trackers relied on subtle clues to hunt game in the wilderness.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Use
Can refer to someone hired for their expertise in following trails, like in law enforcement.
A skilled tracker was brought in to help locate the fugitives.
Pro Tip 1/3Tracking Skill
Refers to a person's ability to search for someone or something by looking for evidence of their presence.
Native tribes have expert trackers adept at reading signs of wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
The term often relates to hunting or survival skills used before modern technology.
Trackers relied on subtle clues to hunt game in the wilderness.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Use
Can refer to someone hired for their expertise in following trails, like in law enforcement.
A skilled tracker was brought in to help locate the fugitives.
Pro Tip 1/3Tracking Skill
Refers to a person's ability to search for someone or something by looking for evidence of their presence.
Native tribes have expert trackers adept at reading signs of wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
The term often relates to hunting or survival skills used before modern technology.
Trackers relied on subtle clues to hunt game in the wilderness.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Use
Can refer to someone hired for their expertise in following trails, like in law enforcement.
A skilled tracker was brought in to help locate the fugitives.
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Are we born to run? PIPE...
The herd explodes and it gathers back again. Those expert trackers have to be part of the pack. They can't be 10 miles behind. You need the women and the adolescents there, because the two times in your life you most benefit from animal protein is when you're a nursing mother and a developing adolescent. It makes no sense to have the antelope over there, dead,
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Autofocusing reading...
to estimate focusing distance. We have an eye tracker that can tell what direction our eyes are focused in. Using two of these, we can triangulate your gaze direction to get a focus estimate. Just in case though, to increase reliability, we also added a distance sensor. The sensor is a camera that looks out at the world and reports distances to objects.
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Upgrading management...
coach you on how to go anywhere new the first few times we rely on health trackers to help us achieve our fitness goals or in my case gently nudging me to eat less move more sleep and smile and our research for the dakota company we were encouraged to see a whole new wave of innovation companies taking inspiration from the consumer landscape
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Extremely Rare White...
managed to find this big pride of lions which contains two of the white lines that we've been looking for one tiny little cub and an older male it's been a lot of work trying to find these guys but with our guide and tracker and working together as a team it's we've managed to pull it off like I said is
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The language of lying —...
from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances, most can be fooled with enough preparation,
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Where Your Cat Goes May...
free license to roam wherever they want if we let them outside people who said that they want to track their cats think they know generally where their cats go and it seems that most the time they are not they're not right about where their cat goes cat tracker is a project we
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The pattern behind...
in which you string together a bunch of words that sound good, but it does absolutely nothing. In this case, at trespass points, allowing people to go through because your little tracker device said they were okay, actually cost lives. So there is a danger to pseudoscience,
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How to spot a liar PIPE...
Okay, there's no doubting the veracity of those emotions. Now the technology around what the truth looks like is progressing on, the science of it. We know, for example, that we now have specialized eye trackers and infrared brain scans,
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The Life of a Baby Polar...
It was all down to our incredible, polar bear tracker, Morris. But most importantly, between her legs, snuggled up, is a tiny, tiny little polar bear cub. And you can see it's so tightly snug in mum.
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Chimpanzees Hurl Dung at...
we've teamed up with expert local trackers who are taking us deep into the forest one of our guide reckons there's a tree down here a fig tree that's in
Video examples
Are we born to run? PIPE...
The herd explodes and it gathers back again. Those expert trackers have to be part of the pack. They can't be 10 miles behind. You need the women and the adolescents there, because the two times in your life you most benefit from animal protein is when you're a nursing mother and a developing adolescent. It makes no sense to have the antelope over there, dead,
Video examples
Autofocusing reading...
to estimate focusing distance. We have an eye tracker that can tell what direction our eyes are focused in. Using two of these, we can triangulate your gaze direction to get a focus estimate. Just in case though, to increase reliability, we also added a distance sensor. The sensor is a camera that looks out at the world and reports distances to objects.
Video examples
Upgrading management...
coach you on how to go anywhere new the first few times we rely on health trackers to help us achieve our fitness goals or in my case gently nudging me to eat less move more sleep and smile and our research for the dakota company we were encouraged to see a whole new wave of innovation companies taking inspiration from the consumer landscape
Video examples
Extremely Rare White...
managed to find this big pride of lions which contains two of the white lines that we've been looking for one tiny little cub and an older male it's been a lot of work trying to find these guys but with our guide and tracker and working together as a team it's we've managed to pull it off like I said is
Video examples
The language of lying —...
from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances, most can be fooled with enough preparation,
Video examples
Where Your Cat Goes May...
free license to roam wherever they want if we let them outside people who said that they want to track their cats think they know generally where their cats go and it seems that most the time they are not they're not right about where their cat goes cat tracker is a project we
Video examples
The pattern behind...
in which you string together a bunch of words that sound good, but it does absolutely nothing. In this case, at trespass points, allowing people to go through because your little tracker device said they were okay, actually cost lives. So there is a danger to pseudoscience,
Video examples
How to spot a liar PIPE...
Okay, there's no doubting the veracity of those emotions. Now the technology around what the truth looks like is progressing on, the science of it. We know, for example, that we now have specialized eye trackers and infrared brain scans,
Video examples
The Life of a Baby Polar...
It was all down to our incredible, polar bear tracker, Morris. But most importantly, between her legs, snuggled up, is a tiny, tiny little polar bear cub. And you can see it's so tightly snug in mum.
Video examples
Chimpanzees Hurl Dung at...
we've teamed up with expert local trackers who are taking us deep into the forest one of our guide reckons there's a tree down here a fig tree that's in
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Quote examples
Brendan Iribe
American Businessman
With the headset and motion tracker and all kinds of different future tracking technologies that we are R&Ding, there is just a huge amount of intelligence that has to be created. So we are looking at hiring some of the brightest minds out there to tackle some of those challenges and deliver the very best experience possible for the consumer.
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Ben Fogle
English Writer
Armies and former soldiers are working in the field to help protect elephants. Some have suggested staining the ivory; cameras and trackers have even been embedded within the tusk; others have arranged for tusks to be removed pre-emptively by conservationists.
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Gail Simone
American Writer
Catman - what I really like about him is he's a really grounded character in terms of - he's an excellent tracker. We're giving him a set of new skills for 'Secret Six' as it starts again anew. But he's very sexy, very dangerous, unpredictable.
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Jan Chipchase
Businessman
Many retail stores have consumer trackers that study how long your eyes linger on one product, whether you follow it through by touch, and things that you buy. You can redesign things on a shelf, all by tracking such information.
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Robert Scoble
American Author
Over at Barb Bowman, she's arguing that we should turn off Facebook's tracking of ads. I totally disagree; those trackers make newsfeed filtering work better and potentially could help bring me better ads, which improves my life.
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Calvin Harris
Scottish Musician
Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.
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Allan Savory
Zimbabwean Scientist
A good tracker is interpreting all the time, from every little sign, you know? Not just interpreting the age of the tracks but also: Is it wounded? Is it hungry? A good tracker is interpreting a lot.
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Iain McGilchrist
British Writer
Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
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Peter Sunde
Swedish Businessman
The Pirate Bay has its own trackers. We have more info on the torrents since people upload them to the site and describe them.
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Carl Forti
American Public Servant
In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.
Quote examples
Brendan Iribe
American Businessman
With the headset and motion tracker and all kinds of different future tracking technologies that we are R&Ding, there is just a huge amount of intelligence that has to be created. So we are looking at hiring some of the brightest minds out there to tackle some of those challenges and deliver the very best experience possible for the consumer.
Quote examples
Ben Fogle
English Writer
Armies and former soldiers are working in the field to help protect elephants. Some have suggested staining the ivory; cameras and trackers have even been embedded within the tusk; others have arranged for tusks to be removed pre-emptively by conservationists.
Quote examples
Gail Simone
American Writer
Catman - what I really like about him is he's a really grounded character in terms of - he's an excellent tracker. We're giving him a set of new skills for 'Secret Six' as it starts again anew. But he's very sexy, very dangerous, unpredictable.
Quote examples
Jan Chipchase
Businessman
Many retail stores have consumer trackers that study how long your eyes linger on one product, whether you follow it through by touch, and things that you buy. You can redesign things on a shelf, all by tracking such information.
Quote examples
Robert Scoble
American Author
Over at Barb Bowman, she's arguing that we should turn off Facebook's tracking of ads. I totally disagree; those trackers make newsfeed filtering work better and potentially could help bring me better ads, which improves my life.
Quote examples
Calvin Harris
Scottish Musician
Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.
Quote examples
Allan Savory
Zimbabwean Scientist
A good tracker is interpreting all the time, from every little sign, you know? Not just interpreting the age of the tracks but also: Is it wounded? Is it hungry? A good tracker is interpreting a lot.
Quote examples
Iain McGilchrist
British Writer
Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
Quote examples
Peter Sunde
Swedish Businessman
The Pirate Bay has its own trackers. We have more info on the torrents since people upload them to the site and describe them.
Quote examples
Carl Forti
American Public Servant
In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.
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