tracing

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 4.78 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.
2. noun A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.
3. noun The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
4. noun A regular path or track; a course.
5. verb present participle and gerund of trace

Similar words

chasing charting mapping raster marking paging delineation tracking screening route

Often followed by

the of paper a out and its is their

Word family

trace traceable traced traces tracings