Follow-up

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  follow-up \follow-up\ n.
     1. a second (or subsequent) action to increase the
        effectiveness of an initial action. Also used
        attributively; as a follow-up visit.
  
     Note: A follow-up may be of various types. After a medical


           examination, a second examination (or {reexamination})
           to obtain additional information regarding some fact
           discovered in the first examination is considered a
           follow-up. A second visit or phone call in pursuit of a
           sale or other request would also be a follow-up.
  
     Syn: reexamination, review.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
  
     2. (Journalism) A subsequent story providing information
        discovered or events happening after a first story was
        published.
        [PJC]
  
     3. (Journalism) Same as {sidebar}.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  follow-up
       n 1: a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work;
            "his new software is a follow-up to the programs they
            started with" [syn: {followup}]
       2: an activity that continues something that has already begun
          or that repeats something that has already been done [syn:
           {followup}]
       3: a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of
          monitoring earlier treatment [syn: {followup}, {reexamination},
           {review}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  followup
       n 1: a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work;
            "his new software is a follow-up to the programs they
            started with" [syn: {follow-up}]
       2: an activity that continues something that has already begun
          or that repeats something that has already been done [syn:
           {follow-up}]
       3: a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of
          monitoring earlier treatment [syn: {follow-up}, {reexamination},
           {review}]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 (27 SEP 03) [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}]