tracking

[ trak-ing ]

noun

1. track system.

tracking

/ ˈtrækɪŋ /

noun

1. the act or process of following something or someone
2. electrical engineering a leakage of electric current between two points separated by an insulating material caused by dirt, carbon particles, moisture, etc
3. the way wheels on a vehicle are aligned
4. a function of a video cassette recorder, which adjusts the alignment of the heads in order to achieve the best possible audio and video reproduction from each recording

Other Words From

• mis·tracking noun

Example Sentences

Closely monitor your progress using Google My Business Insights and additional tracking platforms to determine where you stand and realign strategies accordingly.

From Search Engine Watch

It also includes order tracking and management, which, to date, have tracked over 430 million orders across over 450 million miles.

From TechCrunch

Google Fit for Pixel phones will have this new card in the middle for vitals tracking.

From Ars Technica

For this reason, Apple’s crackdown on tracking is likely to squeeze those advertisers chasing app installs, while leaving those buying those ads for user engagement relatively untouched.

From Digiday

When a lab analyzed the cremains for the tracking material, three of the eight samples weren’t right.

From Freakonomics

A dozen Revolutionary Guards were caught deep inside Pakistan, tracking Rigi.

From The Daily Beast

“We are tracking down the man,” the Bangalore Police Commissioner said.

From The Daily Beast

She recounts sending Ivgy a script, then tracking the actress down at school.

From The Daily Beast

MIT Professor Eric Alm thinks that sewers are the missing link to tracking public health.

From The Daily Beast

This was the most sophisticated global tracking system ever devised, and it worked with lethal efficiency.

From The Daily Beast

The snowshoe rabbit made its appearance, tracking the shadowy, silent woods with great, outlandish marks.

From Project Gutenberg

Here the party spread out, paying close attention to the pavement, as if they were engaged in tracking something.

From Project Gutenberg

He had an unreasonable conviction that, if he had known at once of Janie's disappearance, he would have succeeded in tracking her.

From Project Gutenberg

When we had been several days continuously tracking we came up with the beasts.

From Project Gutenberg

Thy voice has been as the sound of glad horns upon a hill, but thy ways are the ways of a gaunt hound tracking the hunted stag.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• hunt
• inquiry
• quest