Definition of Tracing

Tracing

of Trace

The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.

A regular path or track; a course.

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Tracing Quotations

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
Albert Einstein

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
Gustav Mahler

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
Rick Moody

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Henry Hazlitt

That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.
Stephen Sprouse

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Italo Calvino

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Tracing Translations

tracing in German is Ablaufverfolgung {f}
tracing in Spanish is trazado

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