A visible mark, such as a footprint, made or left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing.
Evidence or an indication of the former presence or existence of something; a vestige.
An extremely small amount.
A constituent, such as a chemical compound or element, present in quantities less than a standard limit.
The point at which a line, or the curve in which a surface, intersects a coordinate plane.
The sum of the elements of the principal diagonal of a matrix.
A barely perceivable indication; a touch: spoke with a trace of sarcasm.
An extremely small amount.
A constituent, such as a chemical compound or element, present in quantities less than a standard limit.
The point at which a line, or the curve in which a surface, intersects a coordinate plane.
The sum of the elements of the principal diagonal of a matrix.
A path or trail that has been beaten out by the passage of animals or people.
A way or route followed.
A line drawn by a recording instrument, such as a cardiograph.
Mathematics
The point at which a line, or the curve in which a surface, intersects a coordinate plane.
The sum of the elements of the principal diagonal of a matrix.
An engram.
v.
traced, trac·ing, trac·es
v.
tr.
To follow the course or trail of: trace a wounded deer; tracing missing persons.
To ascertain the successive stages in the development or progress of: tracing the life cycle of an insect; trace the history of a family.
To locate or discover by searching or researching evidence: trace the cause of a disease.
To draw (a line or figure); sketch; delineate.
To form (letters) with special concentration or care.
To copy by following lines seen through a sheet of transparent paper.
To follow closely (a prescribed pattern): The skater traced a figure eight.
To imprint (a design) by pressure with an instrument on a superimposed pattern.
To make a design or series of markings on (a surface) by such pressure on a pattern.
To imprint (a design) by pressure with an instrument on a superimposed pattern.
To make a design or series of markings on (a surface) by such pressure on a pattern.
To record (a variable), as on a graph.
v.
intr.
To make one's way along a trail or course: traced through the files.
To have origins; be traceable: linguistic features that trace to West Africa.
adj.
Occurring in extremely small amounts or in quantities less than a standard limit.
[Middle English, track, from Old French, from tracier, to make one's way, from Vulgar Latin *tractiāre, from Latin tractus, a dragging, course, from past participle of trahere, to draw.]
trace'a·bil'i·ty n., trace'a·ble adj., trace'a·bly adv.
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