Following /(?)/

Fol·low·ing

Following

n.
  1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
  2. Vocation; business; profession.

Following

a.
  1. Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
  2. (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding. (Astron.)