- present participle of trace.
noun
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a copy made by tracing
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the act of making a trace
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a record made by an instrument
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tracing
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at trace 1, -ing 1
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By tracing cellular ancestry and identifying when different developmental pathways emerge, scientists may gain a clearer understanding of how these problems begin.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Scottish government said four of those cases were detected outside of the zone by tracing animal movements from the affected farms.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
When I looked for a book tracing its full history, I realized nobody had written one, so I wrote it myself.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
The International Community for the Red Cross, the primary international rights group involved in tracking down missing persons in the enclave, says it is dealing with roughly 5,000 to 6,000 open tracing requests in Gaza.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Even if I hadn’t seen Bas in months, wouldn’t I still be thinking of him every day, mentally tracing his name on everything I saw?
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
An army of people would spend a week or two searching for tiger tracks and making tracings or plaster casts of the left hind foot.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
The platform’s inputs are “imaging of any type—ECG, heart tracings, echocardiograms, blood tests, labs, genetic tests and, importantly, the electronic health record,” Dr. Mansi says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
I could ignore my past struggles, pretend they no longer matter, but indelible tracings remain.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
Using radiocarbon tracings, the archaeologists have dated the grave to the approximate time of the construction of Stonehenge, between 3005 and 2890 B.C.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2022
She’d been younger than Jojo at the time, but Stella remembered the furtive whispers and the tracings of fear on the grown-ups around her when it had happened.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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