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.
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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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Traceable microscopy could improve the reliability of quantum information technologies, biological imaging, and more.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2024
Traceable cause suggests a deviation from the norm.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2015
Traceable to these hyperthyroid thrillers are many a midnight scream in the nursery, many a juvenile nervous tantrum.
From Time Magazine Archive
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