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      trace
      noun
      An act of tracing.
      An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
      A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
      A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
      (meteorology) A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
      (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
      An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
      One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
      (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
      (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
      (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
      (linear algebra) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
      (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
      (programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
      (colloquial) A short form of the female given name Tracy or Tracey.
      verb
      (transitive) To follow the trail of.
      To follow the history of.
      (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
      (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
      (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
      (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
      (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
      (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
      adjective
      Extremely small or insignificant (of an amount or quantity).
      Roots
      trahotrac- · Latin · draw, pull
      Synonyms for trace
      vestigenhintndelineatevtrailnfollowvdrawvdetectvspoornfootprintsntracksvlocatevtouchnresiduenlinen
      Words related to trace
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      Where does trace come from?

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