Definitions for tracingˈtreɪ sɪŋ

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

trac•ingˈtreɪ sɪŋ(n.)

  1. the act of a person or thing that traces.

  2. something that is produced by tracing.

  3. a copy of a drawing, map, plan, etc., made by tracing on a transparent sheet placed over the original.

    Category: Printing

Origin of tracing:

1350–1400

Princeton's WordNet

  1. tracing(noun)

    the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline

  2. tracing, trace(noun)

    a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image

  3. tracing(noun)

    the discovery and description of the course of development of something

    "the tracing of genealogies"

Wiktionary

  1. tracing(Noun)

    The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.

  2. tracing(Noun)

    A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.

  3. tracing(Noun)

    The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.

Webster Dictionary

  1. tracing(u)

    of Trace

  2. Tracing(noun)

    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

  3. Tracing(noun)

    a regular path or track; a course


Translations for tracing

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

tracing(noun)

a copy made by tracing

I made a tracing of the diagram.

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