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trace·a·ble       [trey-suh-buhl] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.capable of being traced.
2.attributable or ascribable (usually fol. by to): a victory traceable to good coaching.
[Origin: 1740–50; trace1 + -able]

—Related forms
trace·a·bil·i·ty, trace·a·ble·ness, noun
trace·a·bly, adverb
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trace 1       (trās)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. A visible mark, such as a footprint, made or left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing.
    2. Evidence or an indication of the former presence or existence of something; a vestige.
    3. An extremely small amount.
    4. A constituent, such as a chemical compound or element, present in quantities less than a standard limit.
    5. The point at which a line, or the curve in which a surface, intersects a coordinate plane.
    6. The sum of the elements of the principal diagonal of a matrix.
  2. A barely perceivable indication; a touch: spoke with a trace of sarcasm.
    1. An extremely small amount.
    2. A constituent, such as a chemical compound or element, present in quantities less than a standard limit.
    3. The point at which a line, or the curve in which a surface, intersects a coordinate plane.
    4. The sum of the elements of the principal diagonal of a matrix.
  4. A path or trail that has been beaten out by the passage of animals or people.
  5. A way or route followed.
  6. A line drawn by a recording instrument, such as a cardiograph.
  7. Mathematics
    1. The point at which a line, or the curve in which a surface, intersects a coordinate plane.
    2. The sum of the elements of the principal diagonal of a matrix.
  8. An engram.

v.   traced, trac·ing, trac·es

v.   tr.
  1. To follow the course or trail of: trace a wounded deer; tracing missing persons.
  2. To ascertain the successive stages in the development or progress of: tracing the life cycle of an insect; trace the history of a family.
  3. To locate or discover by searching or researching evidence: trace the cause of a disease.
  4. To draw (a line or figure); sketch; delineate.
  5. To form (letters) with special concentration or care.
    1. To copy by following lines seen through a sheet of transparent paper.
    2. To follow closely (a prescribed pattern): The skater traced a figure eight.
    3. To imprint (a design) by pressure with an instrument on a superimposed pattern.
    4. To make a design or series of markings on (a surface) by such pressure on a pattern.
    1. To imprint (a design) by pressure with an instrument on a superimposed pattern.
    2. To make a design or series of markings on (a surface) by such pressure on a pattern.
  8. To record (a variable), as on a graph.

v.   intr.
  1. To make one's way along a trail or course: traced through the files.
  2. 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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traceable

adjective
1. (usually followed by 'to') able to be traced to; "a failure traceable to lack of energy" 
2. capable of being traced or tracked; "a traceable riverbed"; "the traceable course of an ancient wall" [ant: untraceable] 

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Traceable

Trace"a*ble\, a. Capable of being traced. -- Trace"a*ble*ness, n. -- Trace"a/bly, adv.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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