tracking
Americannoun
noun
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the act or process of following something or someone
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electrical engineering a leakage of electric current between two points separated by an insulating material caused by dirt, carbon particles, moisture, etc
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the way wheels on a vehicle are aligned
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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
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The police discovered that catching poachers also led to tracking down other kinds of criminal activity in Beijing.
From BBC
Nunez congratulated the different police services involved in tracking down the suspect.
From Barron's
She had been earning $17.40 an hour handling invoices and tracking the loads of soybeans.
As of Friday afternoon, nearly 1,500 flights across the US had been cancelled and 5,400 had been delayed, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.
From BBC
Instead, astronomers discovered them by carefully tracking the motion of nearby stars.
From Science Daily
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