followup : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: followup	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for followup
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
followup n a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work; "his new software is a follow-up to the programs they started with" Synonym(s): follow-up, followup an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done Synonym(s): follow-up, followup a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment Synonym(s): follow-up, followup, reexamination, review
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
followup n. [common] On Usenet, a {posting} generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a {reply}, which goes by email rather than being broadcast). Followups include the ID of the {parent message} in their headers; smart news-readers can use this information to present Usenet news in `conversation' sequence rather than order-of-arrival. See {thread}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
followup On {Usenet}, a {posting} generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a {reply}, which goes by e-mail rather than being broadcast). Followups include the ID of the {parent message} in their headers; smart news-readers can use this information to present {Usenet} news in "conversation" sequence rather than order-of-arrival. See {thread}. [{Jargon File}]