tracking

[trak-ing]

noun

1. track system.

tracking

/ ˈtrækɪŋ /

noun

1. the act or process of following something or someone

2. electrical engineering a leakage of electric current between two points separated by an insulating material caused by dirt, carbon particles, moisture, etc

3. the way wheels on a vehicle are aligned

4. 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

Other Word Forms

• mistracking noun

Example Sentences

A court later heard a graphic account of how he was attacked with bladed weapons after he crashed his Skoda Octavia - which had been fitted with a tracking device - and passed out behind the wheel.

From BBC

Then again, that assumes that tracking those details is why anybody turned up in Santa Barbara.

From Los Angeles Times

News publishers are among those which have adopted the mechanism in the UK so far - often asking users to "accept all" tracking cookies or "reject and pay".

From BBC

Posts seen by the BBC describe parcels not being collected from InPost UK lockers or left stuck in transit without updated tracking information.

From BBC

“The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to discontinue its annual survey tracking food security data is deeply troubling,” Mitchell said in his Sunday statement.

From Salon

Related Words

• hunt 
• inquiry 
• quest