traceable
Americanadjective
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capable of being traced.
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attributable or ascribable (usually followed byto ).
a victory traceable to good coaching.
Other Word Forms
- nontraceability noun
- nontraceable adjective
- nontraceableness noun
- nontraceably adverb
- traceability noun
- traceableness noun
- traceably adverb
- untraceable adjective
Etymology
Origin of traceable
Explanation
If something is traceable, it can be tracked or detected — like an email address or evidence of a crime. The word traceable is just the adjective form of the common verb trace, meaning “to find.” So if you describe something as traceable, that just means that it can be detected. A poison that can be discovered in the body of a murder victim, for example, is a traceable poison. The word can also be used in the sense of something that can be tracked, such as a suspicious money transaction that’s traceable to your bank account. If something is traceable, it has left you a trail to follow it.
Vocabulary lists containing traceable
Example Sentences
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The project will consist of seven albums, released over seven months, each devoted to a genre — hip-hop, reggae, jazz, country, Haitian kompa, R&B — and each traceable to a pivotal moment in his career.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
To overcome this obstacle, the researchers designed a patent-pending staining approach that attaches traceable silver and bromine markers to widely used cellulose- and latex-based binders in graphite- and silicon-based anodes.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2026
"Integrating informal actors into traceable supply chains could substantially reduce" loss of valuable critical minerals at the sorting and dismantling stages, he said.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
Biometric identification and traceable digital payments would help ensure the money went to the right people.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
It was pure imagination, probably traceable in the beginning to lies circulated by Snowball.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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