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[trey-ser] 
trac⋅er
[trey-ser] 
sər –noun
| 1. | a person or thing that traces. |
| 2. | a person whose business or work is the tracing of missing property, parcels, persons, etc. |
| 3. | an inquiry sent from point to point to trace a missing shipment, parcel, or the like, as in a transportation system. |
| 4. | any of various devices for tracing drawings, plans, etc. |
| 5. | Also called tracer ammunition. ammunition containing a chemical substance that causes a projectile to trail smoke or fire so as to make its path visible and indicate a target to other firers, esp. at night. |
| 6. | the chemical substance contained in such ammunition. |
| 7. | a substance, esp. a radioactive one, traced through a biological, chemical, or physical system in order to study the system. |
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