automatic tracking

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noun Electronics.

a radar tracking system in which an automatic device uses the echo signal from the tracked object to keep the radar constantly beamed on target and to compute the range of the object.

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Example sentences from the Web for automatic tracking

Hovering above the scene, commandos in helicopters were poised with automatic rifles.
France Kills Charlie Hebdo Murderers|Nico Hines|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A dozen Revolutionary Guards were caught deep inside Pakistan, tracking Rigi.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan|Umar Farooq|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Brinsley stepped up to the passenger side of the patrol car, raised a silver Taurus semi-automatic pistol and began firing.
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“We are tracking down the man,” the Bangalore Police Commissioner said.
The Scared Widdle Kitty of ISIS|Jacob Siegel|December 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST

She recounts sending Ivgy a script, then tracking the actress down at school.
‘Zero Motivation’: the Funny Side of the IDF|Melissa Leon|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the same way the technical form and mechanism of production were presumed to respond to an automatic stimulus.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
This automatic suitable bass device does not interfere with the normal use of the stop-keys of the pedal department by hand.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
It was not purposely contrived, it was in automatic obedience to deeper impulses than she knew.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
He launched into a long explanation of some scheme he had in mind for securing automatic balancing.
Uncanny Tales|Various
No sooner had his feet hit the floor, however, than he felt the cold, stern prod of the barrel of an automatic.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various

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