- present participle of track.
tracking
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trackings
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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
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More than 3,500 flights were cancelled and more than 2,000 delayed in the US on Saturday, according to tracking website Flight Aware, as knock-on disruption continues.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
A spokesperson for Meta said the company regularly issues “public reports tracking violating content on our platforms, and the prevalence of hateful conduct did not increase throughout 2025.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
"On the one hand, it's evolving dark matter as well as the gas in the universe, and on the other, it's also tracking how radiation travels," Zier explains.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
Dollar Index, a gauge tracking the greenback against major peers, continued notching new 52-week highs due to expectations of a rate hike in December.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Although Elizebeth was busy tracking Nazi spies, she made time to look at the Doll Woman letters.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Hence come my laborious trackings of it through mazes of moods and feelings; painful trifling, I daresay.
From The King's Mirror by Anthony Hope
It's a sad thing as how we may be found out, no matter how careful we sweep up our trackings.
From Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Anne Warner
She did not believe any of them, and had no faith in their mysterious trackings and whisperings aside, and mad gallopings off to hidden ends.
From The Rustler of Wind River by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
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