follower

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F0229200 (fŏl′ō-ər)n.1. One that follows, especially:a. One who accepts the guidance, command, or leadership of another: a follower of Gandhi.b. One who has a strong interest or pays close attention to something: a follower of new developments in technology.2. A machine element moved by another machine element.

follower

(ˈfɒləʊə) n1. a person who accepts the teachings of another; disciple; adherent: a follower of Marx. 2. an attendant or henchman3. an enthusiast or supporter, as of a sport or team4. (esp formerly) a male admirer5. rare a pursuer6. (Mechanical Engineering) a machine part that derives its motion by following the motion of another part

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n. 1. a person or thing that follows. 2. a person who follows another in regard to his or her ideas or belief. 3. a person who imitates, copies, or takes as a model or ideal. 4. an attendant, servant, or retainer. 5. a mechanical part receiving motion from or following the movements of another part, esp. a cam. [before 900] syn: follower, adherent, partisan refer to someone who demonstrates allegiance to a person, doctrine, cause, or the like. follower often has an implication of personal relationship or of deep devotion to authority or to a leader: a follower of Gandhi. adherent, a more formal word, suggests active championship of a person or point of view: an adherent of monetarism. partisan suggests firm loyalty, as to a party, cause, or person, that is based on emotions rather than on reasoning: a partisan of the conservatives.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	follower - a person who accepts the leadership of anotherindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"camp follower - a follower who is not a member of an ingroupCartesian - a follower of Cartesian thoughtcultist - a member of a religious cultcultist - a member of an unorthodox cult who generally lives outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leaderadherent, disciple - someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of anotherbuff, devotee, lover, fan - an ardent follower and admireradulator, flatterer - a person who uses flatterystooge, yes-man, flunkey, flunky - a person of unquestioning obedienceFreudian - a person who follows the basic theories or practices of Sigmund FreudHegelian - a follower of the thought of Hegelinferior - one of lesser rank or station or qualityJacksonian - a follower of Andrew Jackson or his ideasjanissary - a loyal supporter; "every politician has a following of janissaries"Jeffersonian - a follower of Thomas Jefferson or his ideas and principlesJungian - a follower or advocate of Carl Jung's theoriesKeynesian - a follower of the economic theories of John Maynard KeynesLamarckian - a believer in Lamarckismleech, parasite, sponger, sponge - a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantageMachiavellian - a follower of Machiavelli's principlesMendelian - a follower of MendelismMohammedan, Muhammadan, Muhammedan - a follower of Mohammedmyrmidon - a follower who carries out orders without questionNestorian - a follower of NestoriusNewtonian - a follower of Isaac Newtonregular - a dependable follower (especially in party politics); "he is one of the party regulars"respecter - a person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative; "X is no respecter of Y"planet, satellite - a person who follows or serves anothersheep - a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision; "his students followed him like sheep"Skinnerian - a follower of the theories or methods of B. F. SkinnerStalinist - a follower of Stalin and Stalinismsubmitter - someone who yields to the will of another person or forcehanger-on, tagalong - someone who persistently (and annoyingly) follows alongfeudatory, liege, liege subject, liegeman, vassal - a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lordWagnerian - a follower of the theories or an admirer of the music of Richard Wagnerleader - a person who rules or guides or inspires others
	2.	follower - someone who travels behind or pursues anothertraveler, traveller - a person who changes locationchaser, pursuer - a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture; "always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers"shadow - an inseparable companion; "the poor child was his mother's shadow"shadower, tail, shadow - a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements

follower

noun1. supporter, fan, representative, convert, believer, admirer, backer, partisan, disciple, protagonist, devotee, worshipper, apostle, pupil, cohort (chiefly U.S.), adherent, henchman, groupie (slang), habitué, votary violent clashes between followers of the two organisations
supporter leader, teacher, tutor, guru, mentor, svengali, swami2. attendant, assistant, companion, helper, sidekick (slang), henchman, retainer (History), hanger-on, minion, lackey the standard devoted camp follower
attendant rival, enemy, opponent, contender, foe, antagonist

follower

nounOne who supports and adheres to another:adherent, cohort, disciple, henchman, minion, partisan, satellite, supporter.

Translations

追随者

follow

(ˈfoləu) verb1. to go or come after. I will follow (you).跟随2. to go along (a road, river etc). Follow this road.沿着...前进3. to understand. Do you follow (my argument)?领会4. to act according to. I followed his advice.听从ˈfollower noun a person who follows, especially the philosophy, ideas etc of another person. He is a follower of Plato (= Plato's theories).追随者ˈfollowing noun supporters. He has a great following among the poorer people.一批追随者 adjective1. coming after. the following day.接着的2. about to be mentioned. You will need the following things.下述的 preposition after; as a result of. Following his illness, his hair turned white.在...以后 pronoun things about to be mentioned. You must bring the following – pen, pencil, paper and rubber. 下面（东西） ˈfollow-up noun further reaction or response. Was there any follow-up to the letter you wrote to the newspaper?补充报道follow up1. to go further in doing something. The police are following up a clue.把...追究到底2. to find out more about (something). I followed up the news.跟踪

follower

Engineering a machine part that derives its motion by following the motion of another part

Follower

an electronic amplifier stage with a gain of almost unity; as a rule, the gain is between 0.95 and 0.99. Followers are widely used in various radio-engineering devices. They serve as a buffer stage (impedance transformer) that isolates the signal source from the load in cases where the resistances of the source and the load are markedly different. Followers can be classified as voltage and current types. They can also be classified as inverting and noninverting types, where inversion means that the polarity or the phase of the input-signal oscillations is changed

Figure 1. Followers: (a) cathode, (b) emitter, (c) source: (ET) electron tube; (T) transistor; (FT) field-effect transistor; (R) load resistor; (U_in) voltage of input signal; (U_out) voltage of output signal; (E_an), (E_co), and (E_dr) constant voltages fed to anode, collector, and drain, respectively

at the output of the stage. Amplification of power—the general property of an amplifier stage—is also exhibited by followers. Voltage followers therefore amplify the input current, and current followers amplify the input voltage.

Noninverting voltage followers are most widely used. In contrast to conventional amplifier stages, they typically exhibit an increased input impedance—in particular, a smaller input capacitance—and a decreased output impedance. Because of this characteristic, they can transmit signals from a high-impedance source—for example, a source with an impedance of 1 megohm—to a load with a low impedance, such as ~ 10 ohms, practically without attenuation. A typical example of a low-impedance load is a length of coaxial cable that connects individual units of electronic equipment.

Voltage followers are also classified by the type of electronic device used in their circuitry. Cathode followers use an electron tube (Figure 1,a), emitter followers a bipolar transistor (Figure 1,b), and source followers a field-effect transistor (Figure 1,c). All of these types exhibit a strong (“100-percent”) negative feedback. As a result, they have an increased linearity and stability of characteristics, a greater bandwidth, and a wider amplitude range of the input signal. Voltage followers in integrated circuits generally make use of a dual or a compound transistor.

REFERENCES

Erglis, K. E., and I. P. Stepanenko, Elektronnye usiliteli, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1964
Stepanenko, I. P. Osnovy teorii tranzistorov i tranzistomykh skhem, 3rd ed. Moscow, 1973.

I. P. STEPANENKO

follower

[′fäl·ə·wər] (engineering) A drill used for making all but the first part of a hole, the first part being made with a drill of larger gage.

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