tracker

5 definitions • 8 examples

a person who is able to find animals or people by following the marks they leave on the ground as they move over it:

An Aboriginal tracker led them to the place where the plane had crashed.

an electronic device or piece of software that records information about your physical activity:

The sleep tracker records all sorts of details about your sleep.

What is the best activity tracker?

a financial product that follows the level of an interest rate, share price, etc.:

Trackers are usually cheaper than actively managed funds, as they are often run by computer instead of a fund manager.

A typical base-rate tracker offers between 0.2 and 0.3 percentage points above the Bank's rate.

a device that shows where someone or something is:

GPS trackers can be plugged into most cars' onboard computers.

Every time someone downloads the file, the tracker records where they are.

a financial product that follows the level of a particular share index:

Index trackers need little active management as they simply mirror the performance of a given market index.