tracking

[ trak-ing ]
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Other words from tracking

  • mis·track·ing, noun

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How to use tracking in a sentence

  • The hospital-train bore us with many interruptions and frequent side-trackings toward the Channel and "Blighty."

  • It's a sad thing as how we may be found out, no matter how careful we sweep up our trackings.

  • Hence come my laborious trackings of it through mazes of moods and feelings; painful trifling, I daresay.

    The King's Mirror | Anthony Hope
  • They pause and point to the innumerable trackings of men and beasts into their beloved hunting grounds.

    The Conquest | Eva Emery Dye
  • Here were scope for psychology; here were subtle unwindings of motive, trackings of reason, intricate anatomizations of the heart.

British Dictionary definitions for tracking

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

  1. the way wheels on a vehicle are aligned

  2. 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

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