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Definition of Tracing

1. Noun. The act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline.

2. Noun. 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. Noun. The discovery and description of the course of development of something. "The tracing of genealogies"

Definition of Tracing

1. n. 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.

Definition of Tracing

1. Noun. The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper. ¹

2. Noun. A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph. ¹

3. Noun. The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tracing

1. something that is traced [n -S]

Medical Definition of Tracing

1. 1. Any graphic display of electrical or mechanical cardiovascular events, e.g., electrocardiogram, phlebogram. See: curve. 2. In dentistry, a line or lines, scribed on a table or plate by a pointed instrument, representing a record of movements of the mandible; may be extraoral (made outside the oral cavity) or intraoral (made within the oral cavity). (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tracing

trachomatous pannus trachs trachycarpous trachychromatic trachymedusae trachyonychia trachyphonia trachystomata trachyte trachytes

trachytic trachytoid tracial tracible tracing (current term) tracing (cephalometric) tracing paper tracing routine tracings track

track-and-field track-mounted track-to-track seek time track and field track bike track bikes track cycling track cyclist track cyclists

Literary usage of Tracing

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

1. A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen by Thomas Ewing French (1918)
"Ink lines may be removed from tracing cloth by rubbing with a ... A triangle should be slipped under the tracing ..."

2. A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen by Thomas Ewing French (1918)
"Sometimes drawings of a temporary character are, for economy, traced on white tracing paper, but tracing cloth is more transparent, much more durable, ..."

3. A Treatise on Mine-surveying by Bennett Hopper Brough (1896)
"Copying by tracing.—A large sheet of glass is fixed in a wooden frame, ... A sheet of tracing-paper or tracing-cloth is fastened with drawing-pins over the ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"E. Motor Reinforcement The results of the experiments on motor reinforcement produced by tracing with a pencil on the table the outline of the figure ..."

5. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"A lever specially adapted to record a pulse tracing is called a ... When applied to the radial artery some such tracing as that shewn in Fig. ..."

6. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie (1897)
"Copying on tracing.Paper. A thin transparent paper is prepared expressly ... It is less transparent than the tracing.paper, but is very strong and durable. ..."

7. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(4) tracing a pedigree. — Before we conclude this branch of our inquiries, it may not be amiss to exemplify these rules by a short sketch of the manner in ..."

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