Definition of Tracking

1. Noun. The pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind.

Exact synonyms: Trailing
Category relationships: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna
Generic synonyms: Chase, Following, Pursual, Pursuit
Derivative terms: Track, Trail

Definition of Tracking

1. Verb. (present participle of track) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tracking

1. the placement of students within a curriculum [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tracking

trackbars
trackbed
trackbeds
tracked
tracked down
tracked vehicle
trackee
trackees
tracker
tracker mortgage
tracker mortgages
trackerball
trackers
trackie
tracking (current term)
tracking down
tracking shot
trackings
tracklayer
tracklayers
tracklaying
tracklayings
tracklement
tracklements
trackless
trackless trolley
tracklessly
tracklessness
tracklike

Literary usage of Tracking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. High Frontier: The U.S. Air Force and the Military Space Program by Curtis Peebles (1998)
"The complete network was called the Space Detection and tracking System ... The tracking radar on the island of Trinidad in the West Indies, for instance, ..."

2. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John by Elisha Kent Kane (1856)
"tracking INSPECTING A HARBOR—THE MUSK OX—STILL tracking— CONSULTATION — WARPING AGAIN — AGROUND NEAR THE ICE-FOOT — A BREATHING SPELL — THE BOAT EXPEDITION ..."

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