tracing
IPA: trˈeɪsɪŋ
noun
- The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.
- A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.
- The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
- A regular path or track; a course.
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Examples of "tracing" in Sentences
- They are tracing the angle of the gunshot wound.
- Indeed, Provine is quite correct in tracing this kind of thinking back to Darwin himself.
- The new operators of Sonny's declined to be interviewed, saying that tracing is "confidential."
- The windows fog milky with conversation, uninterrupted by the bleating of a hospital monitor, and absentmindedly I begin tracing shapes: Pacmen, stars.
- Gun tracing is such a politically sensitive issue that Congress in 2003 banned the release of any federal data connecting dealers to guns seized in crimes.
- In contrast with such state-of-the-art, 21st-century crime-fighting techniques as DNA matching and digital fingerprint analysis, gun tracing is an antiquated, laborious process done mostly by hand.
- The ensuing difficulty in tracing such ownership is now at the heart of the courts 'objections and the compelling argument for a government-enforced national moratorium on home foreclosures to provide sufficient time to sort this mess out.
- Those (says he) who seek to discover hidden things and know the future have invented an art which they call tracing or smiting the sand; to wit, they take paper or sand or flour and trace thereon at hazard four rows of points, which operation, three times repeated (i.e. four times performed), gives sixteen rows.