tracing
Meaning
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- The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.
- A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.
- The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
- A regular path or track; a course.
Synonyms
direct tracing
tracing out
keeping records on
weapon tracing
seeking out
graphical method
tagging method
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtɹeɪsɪŋ/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English tracyng; equivalent to trace + -ing.
New
trace
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- An act of tracing.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- A residue of some substance or material.
- A very small amount.
- A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- The ground plan of a work or works.
- The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
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