Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
follow-on \follow-on\ n. an immediate second innings forced on a cricket team scoring a prescribed number of runs fewer than its opponents in the first innings.
follow-on \follow-on\ a. Following as a logical consequence or next step in a process; -- used mostly of voluntary actions.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that follows as a natural or logical consequence, development, or progression. 2 (alternative spelling of follow on English)
WordNet
n. an immediate second innings forced on a cricket team scoring a prescribed number of runs fewer than it opponents in the first innings
Wikipedia
In cricket, a follow-on is where the team that bats second is forced to take its second batting innings immediately after its first, because the team was not able to get close enough to the score achieved by the first team batting in the first innings. If the second team to bat scores substantially fewer runs than the first team, the first team have the option of enforcing the follow-on, instructing the second team to bat again immediately. In this case the sequence of batting innings will be first team, second team, second team and then, if needed, the first team again. This is in contrast to the normal progression of batting innings which is first team, second team, first team, second team.
The rules governing the circumstances in which the follow-on may be enforced are found in Law 13 of the Laws of Cricket.
Usage examples of "follow-on".
It was a follow-on to the Reagan Star Wars concept, an antiballistic missile defense system intended to guarantee the security of the continental United States.
A common follow-on conclusion is that scales exist so that the brain can categorise pitch values, similarly to how it categorises other continuums into discrete values, as happens with vowel sounds and colours.
The Thebans had already demonstrated their ability to masquerade as humans over the com, and if they could confuse the defenders, even if only long enough to complete their scans and send back courier drones with exact data on the defenses, the advantage for their follow-on echelons would be incalculable.
In fact, follow-on missions will amortize the costs we have already incurred and give us more value for the money we have already invested.
The enemy battlecruisers' first salvos had exhausted their external ordnance, and the follow-on broadsides were thirty percent lighter, but they continued their deliberate pounding in overpowering waves of thunder that smashed through all active defenses by sheer weight of numbers.
Tango Flight would do its best to break through and disable at least some of the defense grid's fire stations with precision guided munitions in hopes of opening a hole for follow-on assault shuttle waves to exploit.
Tango Flight would do its best to break through and disable at least some of the defense grids fire stations with precision guided munitions in hopes of opening a hole for follow-on assault shuttle waves to exploit.
Basic, straightforward questions, obvious follow-ons to the theory and practice of the New Law robots.
He had been an MH-53 Pave Low Special Operations helicopter pilot since graduating from the Air Force Academy and follow-on flight schools.