- present participle of track.
tracking
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trackings
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the act or process of following something or someone
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electrical engineering a leakage of electric current between two points separated by an insulating material caused by dirt, carbon particles, moisture, etc
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the way wheels on a vehicle are aligned
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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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Quietly embedded within those videos, though, was a tracking pixel created by Facebook.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
Seoul and Tokyo again bore the brunt of the selling as traders bailed out of once-imperious chipmakers, though the selling was heavy across most of the region, tracking sharp losses on Wall Street.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
A prominent ETF tracking the chip sector is set to fall for the eighth consecutive day as investors continue to worry about the state of artificial-intelligence spending.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Eurozone government bond yields fell in opening trade, tracking lower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
He wasn’t angry or even disappointed with them—he accepted that all humans had weaknesses—but he was insistent that everybody take their medicine, even if that meant someone from the clinic tracking them down.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Hence come my laborious trackings of it through mazes of moods and feelings; painful trifling, I daresay.
From The King's Mirror by Anthony Hope
She did not believe any of them, and had no faith in their mysterious trackings and whisperings aside, and mad gallopings off to hidden ends.
From The Rustler of Wind River by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
It's a sad thing as how we may be found out, no matter how careful we sweep up our trackings.
From Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Anne Warner
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