What does tracer mean?

Definitions for tracer
ˈtreɪ sərtrac·er

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tracernoun

    an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods

  2. tracernoun

    an instrument used to make tracings

  3. tracernoun

    (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes

  4. tracer, tracer bulletnoun

    ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke

Wiktionary

  1. tracernoun

    A chemical used to track the progress or history of a natural process.

  2. tracernoun

    A piece of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired at night.

  3. tracernoun

    The act of tracking or investigating something.

  4. tracernoun

    A person who traces something.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tracernoun

    One that traces.

    Etymology: from trace.

    Ambassadors should not be held the tracers of a plot of such malice. James Howell.

ChatGPT

  1. tracer

    A tracer is a substance, typically radioactive or fluorescent, that is used to track or monitor biological processes, chemical reactions, or the movement of substances in a system. It can also refer to any entity that helps determine the origin, path, or location of something. The specific definition depends on the context in which it is used, such as healthcare, environmental science, or computer programming.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tracernoun

    one who, or that which, traces

Wikidata

  1. Tracer

    Tracer is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe, in which he is an enemy of Spider-Man. His first appearance was in Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TRACER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tracer is ranked #91221 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Tracer surname appeared 202 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tracer.

    95% or 192 total occurrences were White.
    2.9% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Anagrams for tracer »

  1. carter

  2. Carter

  3. crater

  4. Crater

  5. recart

  6. arrect

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tracer in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tracer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of tracer in a Sentence

  1. Michel Goedert:

    Our new knowledge of these structures could make it possible to diagnose CTE in living patients by developing tracer compounds that will specifically bind to the tau filaments of CTE.

  2. Robert Stern:

    We can refine our ways of analyzing this tracer in this larger sample and hopefully move this field even further.

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