trace

1 a just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent" [syn: hint, suggestion]

2 an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension" [syn: vestige, tincture, shadow]

3 a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" [syn: touch, ghost]

4 drawing created by tracing [syn: tracing]

5 either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree

6 a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle

1 follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba" ; "trace the student's progress" [syn: follow]

2 make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand" [syn: draw, line, describe, delineate]

3 to go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path" [syn: retrace]

4 pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him" [syn: hound, hunt]

5 discover traces of; "She traced the circumstances of her birth"

6 make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along; "The children traced along the edge of the drak forest"; "The women traced the pasture"

7 copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of; "trace a design"; "trace a pattern"

8 read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs" [syn: decipher]

English

Pronunciation

• /treɪs/

• Rhymes: -eɪs

Noun

1. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
2. A very small amount.
3. An electric current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
4. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
5. The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.

Translations

• ttbc Telugu: ఆనవాలు (aanavaalu)

Verb

1. To follow the trail of.
2. To draw or sketch.
3. To copy onto a sheet of transparent paper.

Translations

Related terms

• tracing

Anagrams

• react

French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tʁas/
• SAMPA: /tRas/

Noun

trace f

1. trace, track

Verb form

trace

1. first-, third-person singular indicative present of tracer
2. first-, third-person singular subjunctive present of tracer
3. second-person singular imperative of tracer

Trace may refer to:

• Trace (linear algebra) of a square matrix or a linear transformation
• Trace class, a certain set of operators in a Hilbert space
• Trace operator, a restriction-to-boundary operator in a Sobolev space
• Field trace in field theory
• Traces, the equivalence classes of strings of a trace monoid, studied in trace theories of concurrent computation
• Trace, in computer science a record of the steps a program has executed (such as a stack trace)
• Signal trace, a printed or etched wire on a printed circuit board
• The curves of intersection of a surface with a plane. (Also called cross-sections of the surface in James Stewart's Calculus 4e, Section 13.6).
• Trace (semiology), the history carried by a sign
• Trace (linguistics), a syntactic placeholder resulting from a transformation
• TRACE (psycholinguistics), a psycholinguistic model of speech perception
• Trace (Deconstruction), a concept in Derridian Deconstruction
• Trace radioisotope, an element that is found in small quantities because it undergoes radioactive decay
• Trace evidence, material found at a crime scene
• Trace element, in geochemistry, an element which composes less than 0.1% of a sample
• TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer), a NASA satellite
• Trace fossil, fossil record of biological activity
• Trace (album), a 1995 album by alt-country band Son Volt
• Trace Adkins, an American country music singer
• Tracing (law), to assert a proprietary remedy against a third party asset
• Trace (tack), one of two or more straps, ropes, or chains by which a vehicle is drawn by a harnessed draught animal
• TrAce Online Writing Centre, a community for writers working online
• Trace (novel), by Patricia Cornwell
• Trace, another name for Portgas D. Ace, a fictional character in the manga One Piece
• Trace, a fictional character in the game Metroid Prime Hunters
• Trace (band), a Dutch progressive rock band
• Trace (artist), a UK drum and bass artist
• Trace (magazine), British hip-hop magazine
• Trace (television), France music television channel.
• Trace, a type of eyeblink conditioning

See also

• DTrace
• tracing

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