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trac⋅ing

   [trey-sing]
–noun
1. the act of a person or thing that traces.
2. something that is produced by tracing.
3. a copy of a drawing, map, plan, etc., made by tracing on a transparent sheet placed over the original.
4. the record made by a self-registering instrument.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see trace 1 , -ing 1
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trace

1   [treys]
noun, verb, traced, trac⋅ing.
–noun
1. a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige: traces of an advanced civilization among the ruins.
2. a barely discernible indication or evidence of some quantity, quality, characteristic, expression, etc.: a trace of anger in his tone.
3. an extremely small amount of some chemical component: a trace of copper in its composition.
4. traces, the series of footprints left by an animal.
5. the track left by the passage of a person, animal, or object: the trace of her skates on the ice.
6. Meteorology. precipitation of less than 0.005 in. (0.127 mm).
7. a trail or path, esp. through wild or open territory, made by the passage of people, animals, or vehicles.
8. engram.
9. a tracing, drawing, or sketch of something.
10. a lightly drawn line, as the record drawn by a self-registering instrument.
11. Mathematics.
a. the intersection of two planes, or of a plane and a surface.
b. the sum of the elements along the principal diagonal of a square matrix.
c. the geometric locus of an equation.
12. the visible line or lines produced on the screen of a cathode-ray tube by the deflection of the electron beam.
13. Linguistics. (in generative grammar) a construct that is phonologically empty but serves to mark the place in the surface structure of a sentence from which a noun phrase has been moved by a transformational operation.
14. Obsolete. a footprint.
–verb (used with object)
15. to follow the footprints, track, or traces of.
16. to follow, make out, or determine the course or line of, esp. by going backward from the latest evidence, nearest existence, etc.: to trace one's ancestry to the Pilgrims.
17. to follow (footprints, evidence, the history or course of something, etc.).
18. to follow the course, development, or history of: to trace a political movement.
19. to ascertain by investigation; find out; discover: The police were unable to trace his whereabouts.
20. to draw (a line, outline, figure, etc.).
21. to make a plan, diagram, or map of.
22. to copy (a drawing, plan, etc.) by following the lines of the original on a superimposed transparent sheet.
23. to mark or ornament with lines, figures, etc.
24. to make an impression or imprinting of (a design, pattern, etc.).
25. (of a self-registering instrument) to print in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner.
26. to put down in writing.
–verb (used without object)
27. to go back in history, ancestry, or origin; date back in time: Her family traces back to Paul Revere.
28. to follow a course, trail, etc.; make one's way.
29. (of a self-registering instrument) to print a record in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner.
Origin:
1250–1300; late ME tracen, ME: to make one's way, proceed < MF tracier < VL *tractiāre, deriv. of L tractus, ptp. of trahere to draw, drag; (n.) ME: orig., way, course, line of footprints < OF, deriv. of tracier
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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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trac·ing     (trā'sĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A reproduction made by superimposing a transparent sheet and copying the lines of the original on it.
  2. A graphic record made by a recording instrument, such as a cardiograph or seismograph.
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tracing

noun
1. the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline 
2. a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image 
3. the discovery and description of the course of development of something; "the tracing of genealogies" 

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tracing trac·ing (trā'sĭng)
n.
A graphic record of mechanical or electrical events that is recorded by a pointed instrument.

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Main Entry: trac·ing
Pronunciation: 'trA-si[ng]
Function: noun
: a graphic record made by an instrument (as an electrocardiograph) that registers somemovement

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Tracing

Tra"cing\, n. 1. The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.

2. A regular path or track; a course.

Tracing cloth, Tracing paper, specially prepared transparent cloth or paper, which enables a drawing or print to be clearly seen through it, and so allows the use of a pen or pencil to produce a facsimile by following the lines of the original placed beneath.

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