- present participle of track.
tracking
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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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Maritime trade tracking firm Kpler identified the damaged ships as the Energos Winter storage and regasification vessel and the GasLog Salem tanker, saying they had been moved offshore after the incident.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Meanwhile, some managers are using big-brotherish tracking methods such as following the locations of employees’ Wi-Fi connections or their company-issued mobile phones while also trying to make being in the office more appealing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The Home Office said new guidance would help forces to roll out tracking systems to record officer and staff exposure to traumatic incidents.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The NAR began tracking this data in 2009.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Although her main job involved tracking spies and ships for the Treasury Department and the Coast Guard, others in Washington sought her help, too.
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 Hope, Anthony
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 Warner, Anne
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 Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
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