Tracking

Definition: Tracking

Tracking

Noun

1. The pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind.

Date "tracking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Specialty Definition: Tracking

Domain	Definition
Computing	Tracking The spacing between characters in a line of text. This is defined when a font is designed but can often be altered in order to change the appearance of the text or for special effects. Tracking should not be confused with kerning which deals with the spacing between certain pairs of characters. See also leading. (1996-06-07). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Aerospace	1. The process of following the movements of an object. This may be done by keeping the reticle of an optical system or a radar beam on the object, by plotting its bearing and distance at frequent intervals, or by a combination of the two.2. A motion given to the major lobe of an antenna so that a preassigned moving target in space remains in the lobe's field as long as it is within viewing range. (references)
Building & Civil Engineering	Permanent longitudinal deformation which occurs under the wheel tracks. Source: European Union. (references)
Economics	A carrier's system of recording movements of shipments from origin to destination. (references)
Electrical Engineering	The parameter that gives the change in one output voltage caused by a change in the voltage level or load on another output. Source: European Union. (references)
	The following of a groove by a phonograph needle. Source: European Union. (references)
Military	1. Precise and continuous position-finding of targets by radar, optical, or other means. (DOD) 2. In air intercept, a code meaning, "By my evaluation, target is steering true course indicated." (references)
Post & Telecom	Rrangement by which the frequency of resonance of one of a number of ganged tuned circuits is maintained at a constant difference from that of the other circuits. Source: European Union. (references)
	The determination of the orbit, velocity or instantaneous position of an object in space by means of radiodetermination for the purpose of following the movements of the object. Source: European Union. (references)
Transportation	The precise and continuous process of following the movements of an object to obtain knowledge of its exact position. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Tracking

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In typography, tracking is the process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the space between all letters in a block of text. It is commonly confused with kerning, but these are two separate concepts.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tracking."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Tracking

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
TRACE	English	Tracking Resources in Advanced Communications Environments	Computing, Post & Telecom
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Tracking

Synonym: trailing (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tracking

English words defined with "tracking": bloodhound ♦ police dog ♦ sleuthhound ♦ Trackage. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tracking": 5th Glove ♦ Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation 2000, active tracking system, air-interception radar, Automated Commercial System, Azusa ♦ beacon stealing, beacon tracking, beacon transmitter, boresight camera, BTS, Bug Tracking System, Bugzilla ♦ Capabilities Maturity Model, CARS, CATS, Census 2000 library, CENTRACK, Central Receiver Solar Power Plants, Central Receiver System, chain radar beacon, cine-theodolite, contact lost, control and reporting system, Cotar, Cotat, COURT ADMINISTRATOR ♦ Debbugs, decennial field interface, Decennial Master Address File, deep space network, DEFENSIVE FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS OPERATOR, direction angle, direction cosine, Docket Control, Dogs, DSIF, DSN ♦ elliptical system ♦ FACTS, flipping turn, floptical ♦ GEANT, GROUND NETWORK ♦ HTTP cookie ♦ Identification Code or EPA I.D. Number, INSTRUCTOR-TRAINER, CANINE SERVICE ♦ KN ♦ leapfrogging, Line Release System, lock, to lock on, lock-on, look angles ♦ Master Control System, minitrack, MOPTAR ♦ National Wetland Inventory, network management, nutating feed ♦ Operations Control System 2000 ♦ phase-lock loop, photovoltaic array, photovoltaic generator, Point-focusing Concentrator, Pre-appointment Management System/Automated Decennial Administrative Management System ♦ radar sonde observation, radiosonde, rawin, REDEYE GUNNER, Rirti, Roti ♦ S-band, search radar, Secor/DME, sferics, Shading Disk, skin tracking, slave antenna, solar cell array, Solar Thermal Parabolic Dishes, station constants, stellar guidance, SUPERVISING AIRPLANE PILOT ♦ target acquisition, TDRS and TDRSS, Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, tracking offset error, Tracking Solar Array, tracking system, TRK, Two-Axis Tracking ♦ unified system ♦ Winston concentrator, Work Needed and Prospective Packages. (references)

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Modern Usage: Tracking

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Well gentlemen, now that the moment has come to bid you farewell, I congratulate both you, Doctor, and you, Professor, on your brilliant work in the development of the submarine tracking system. (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood) Well that's Anakin's tracking signal, all right. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas) I put a tracking device on you. (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck) You don't know much about tracking, do you? (Ice Age; writing credit: Michael Berg) --Well, sir, I have spent sixteen years, and every penny I have, sir, tracking this man down, and at last I have found him! (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon)
Movie/TV Titles	Tracking the Sleeping Death (1938) Bloodhounds Tracking a Convict (1903) Tracking (1981)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Tracking

Domain	Title
Books	Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues (reference) The New Science of Marketing: State-of-the-Art Tools for Anticipating and Tracking the Market Forces That Will Shape Your Company's Future (reference) Inside Triathlon Training Diary: A Weekly Log for Tracking Your Multisport Fitness (reference) Billions of Profiles: Tracking eBusiness Directory Services in Europe [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Tracking Elk for Hunters (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Tracking Buffalo Through the B (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Deer Hunter 5: Tracking Trophies (reference) SHURE BROTHERS SFG-2 Stylus Tracking Force Gauge (reference) Uniden Bearcat TrunkTracker Tracking Hand Scanner (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Tracking

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Photo Album: Tracking

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Tracking Fire Trends From Space. Credit: NASA.		Conducting range-azimuth hydrography at Pelican Cay All of the elements of range-azimuth Observer tracking boat with Wild T-2 theodolite Party off of WHITING. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Scientist displaying pop-off electronic tag. This tag is inserted into a fish's flesh and pops off when it has been programmed to do so. It transmits a signal to an ARGOS satellite for tracking large pelagic fish species. Credit: Fisheries.		Figure 44. A buoy with a drogue used by the CHALLENGER Expedition in the Gulf Stream for current studies in 1873. The drogue acts like an underwater sail and is pushed by the current. The buoy allows visual tracking of the motion of the drogue. It was first tested off Bermuda in in 1873 in separate tests at 50 fathoms, 100 fathoms, and 600 fathoms. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Monitoring antenna tracking at Wallops Island. Credit: NOAA in Space.		A manual tracking 13 db heliz antenna designed to receive TIROS picture information from the Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) system. Credit: NOAA in Space.
	Formosan subterranean termites are feeding on Sudan-red-stained filter paper. Tracking the termites stained with this dye allows researchers to estimate their foraging range and population numbers. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..		Tracking down and treating diabetes starts with routine medical check-up. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Larsen..
	Tracking the Causes of Diabetes Mellitus: from Viruses to Autoimmunity. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Underway at sea in late 1942. Note that the ship's forward six-inch gun turrets and gun director appear to be tracking the photo aircraft. Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: Tracking

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The requisite proportions between the tracked marten and the tracking hound were observed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Tracking

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Your physician may use this coding system as an administrative or tracking tool. (references)
		These regional strategies must be coordinated with the National HIV tracking system. (references)
		Investigators are studying infants through pregnancy, delivery, birth, and infancy, and are tracking those who undergo this treatment. (references)
Business		Other trends services such as vehicular recovery systems and GPS satellite tracking services are experiencing rapid growth. (references)
		The most important is the installation of a Vessel Tracking System (VTS) that would streamline traffic in and out of both ports. (references)
		Work to date has concentrated on improving land-side access to the ports as well as vessel tracking and safety-enhancing systems. (references)
Children	Czech Republic	Some districts tracking local Romani students report that up to 70 percent of the children who attend zero-grade training successfully entered and remained in mainstream schools. (references)
Civil Liberties	Colombia	Some displaced persons move several times after fleeing their original home, making tracking difficult. (references)
	Russia	According to Human Rights Watch and church ministries tracking interethnic violence, it is not unusual for darker-skinned persons to be stopped at random and for officers to demand bribes from those without residence permits. (references)
Economic History	Seychelles	The USAF Tracking Station officially closed down on September 30, 1996. (references)
	El Salvador	Over the last few months, the GOES has improved tax collection and tracking of tax-related information. (references)
	Spain	The Madrid Complex is one of the three-largest tracking and data acquisition complexes comprising NASA's Deep Space Network. (references)
Human Rights	Guatemala	Since MINUGUA began tracking individual lynching cases in 1997, up until June of 2001, it recorded a total of 251 cases. (references)
	Sri Lanka	The Interparliamentary Permanent Standing Committee and its Interministerial Working Group on Human Rights Issues have begun tracking criminal investigations of torture. (references)
	Bolivia	The timely delivery of justice also has been aided by the introduction, with the assistance of an international donor, of a modern, computerized system for tracking cases in the investigative stage and in the courts. (references)
Minorities	Netherlands	NGO's have criticized judicial authorities for not actively tracking down offenses on the Internet. (references)
	Ireland	During the year, the monitoring committee issued a report with 85 recommendations; the report acknowledged that tracking the progress of improvements in the Traveller community was difficult because of a lack of data on Travellers use of education and health services. (references)
Political Economy	TAIWAN	In addition to the "K-plan," the authorities also requested that optical media products (CD, CD-ROM, VCD, and DVD) bear source identification (SID) codes and MASK-ROMs bear special markings for tracking production. (references)
Travel	Vietnam	It is very important to try not to put your Vietnamese counterparts in an embarrassing situation or one that calls for public back tracking. (references)
Worker Rights	Egypt	One of the first tasks of the child labor unit has been to create a database for tracking child labor in the country. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tracking

"Tracking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.51% of the time. "Tracking" is used about 279 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	83.51%	233	19,663
Noun (singular)	7.89%	22	74,468
Adjective (general or positive)	5.73%	16	87,710
Noun (proper)	2.87%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	279	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Tracking

Expressions using "tracking": angle tracking ♦ automatic tracking ♦ bug Tracking System ♦ control and tracking system ♦ index tracking fund management ♦ radar tracking ♦ space tracking ♦ target tracking ♦ tracking device ♦ tracking shot ♦ tracking station ♦ tracking system. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "tracking": back-tracking, multi-tracking, radio-tracking.
	Containing "tracking": twin-tracking-that.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tracking

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
ups tracking	12,160	software defect tracking	213
federal express tracking	2,725	defect tracking	213
flight tracking	2,424	applicant tracking	179
time tracking software	1,860	airborne tracking	173
tracking	618	airborne express tracking	155
ex fed tracking	557	vehicle tracking system	150
time tracking	441	airline tracking	150
dhl tracking	395	attendance tracking	137
gps tracking	368	hurricane tracking map	137
vehicle tracking	335	tracking visitor	128
usps tracking	300	email tracking	126
airline flight tracking	298	tracking system	125
ups package tracking	272	gps tracking system	121
employee time tracking	252	tracking software	119
bug tracking	250	online tracking ups	118
gps vehicle tracking	228	satellite tracking	116
real time flight tracking	217	inventory tracking	115
asset tracking	217	international flight tracking	112
tracking device	215	affiliate tracking software	110
hurricane tracking	214	inventory tracking software	102
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tracking

Language		Translations for "tracking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shoqërim (accompaniment, attendance, concomitance, convoy, society, touch), ndjekim (tracing), binarë (metals, rail, track). (various references)

Arabic		‏ملاحقة (chase, pursuit), ‏مطاردة (chase, hunt, hunting, pursuit). (various references)

Chinese		跟踪 (sleuthing, tailing, tracked). (various references)

Danish		tracking, sporkøring (rutting), sporing (space tracking, trace), space-tracking (space tracking), spændingsparallelløb, rumsporing (space tracking), parallelløb, banestyring (continuous path control of motion, contouring), banefastlæggelse (trajectography, trajectory calculation), baneberegning (trajectography, trajectory calculation). (various references)

Dutch		tracking, volging, spoorvorming (rutting), spoor (imprint, print, railroad, railway, spur, trace, track, trail), ruimtevolging (space tracking), rijspoor, in de ruimte volgen (space tracking), het volgen, handhaving constant frequentieverschil. (various references)

Finnish		tasakäynti (amble), urautuminen (rutting), ura (career, channel, course), seuranta (monitoring, space tracking, surveillance, trace), raideura, radanseuranta, paikannus, kulumisura. (various references)

French		poursuite. (various references)

German		Nachführen (slave, slaving). (various references)

Greek		ιχνηλάτηση, παρακολούθηση συχνότητας, χάραξη πορείας (trajectography, trajectory calculation), χάραξη ανοιχτής τροχιάς (trajectography, trajectory calculation), χάραξη ίχνους τροχιάς (trajectography, trajectory calculation), αυλάκι (channel, ditch, drain, furrow, groove, rut, trough, wake), αυλάκωση (corrugation, striation, sulfation), διαστημική ιχνηλάτηση (space tracking), διαστημική παρακολούθηση (space tracking), διαγραφή τροχιάς. (various references)

Hebrew		מעקב (drag, follow up, sequence, tracing), �'שוש (exploration, feeling, probing, scouting, searching), � תוב (directing, pilotage, routing, steering, tracing). (various references)

Hungarian		követés (follow up, following, follow-up, imitation, pursuance, succession, watch). (various references)

Italian		puntamento, ormaia, inseguimento (chase, persecution, pursuit), formazione di ormaie (rutting), dispositivo di tenuta in passo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		トラス橋 (track, tracking station, trackman, truck, truck farm, truck terminal, trucking, truss bridge). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		トラッキング (trucking). (various references)

Korean		�'�를 �"음. (various references)

Pig Latin		ackingtray

Portuguese		trilhas das rodas, trajectografia (trajectography, trajectory calculation), seguimento (follow, pursuance, sequel, sequence), rodeiras, rastreio espacial (space tracking), rastreio (depistage, detection of diseases, screening, trace), perseguição (chase, chasing, follow, persecution, pursuit, quest), formação de rodeiras (rutting), encalço, ajuste de compensação. (various references)

Russian		слежение, рельсовые пути, настилка путей. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		praćenje (accompaniment). (various references)

Spanish		seguimiento (tracing). (various references)

Swedish		spårande (location). (various references)

Ukrainian		стеження (investigation), укладання колій, залізничні колії. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tracking

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tracking": trackings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "tracking": backtracking, multitracking, retracking, sidetracking. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tracking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: strecking, traci, trackings, traxing, trecking, Treskin, troking. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tracking"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tracking" (pronounced tra"king)
5	-r a" k i ng	cracking, racking, wracking.
4	-a" k i ng	attacking, backing, hacking, jacking, lacking, packing, sacking, smacking, stacking, tacking, unpacking, whacking.
3	-k i ng	aching, antismoking, asking, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wreaking, wrecking, yanking.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Tracking

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-k-n-r-t"
	-1 letter: arcking, carking, carting, crating, karting, racking, tacking, tracing.
	-2 letters: acting, antick, arcing, caking, caring, catkin, gratin, racing, raking, rating, taking, taring, tragic.
	-3 letters: acing, actin, antic, cairn, cigar, crank, garni, giant, grain, grant, kiang, krait, naric, riant, takin, track, tragi, traik, train, trank, triac, trick.
	-4 letters: agin, airn, airt, akin, anti, cain, cant, cark.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-k-n-r-t"
	+1 letter: kingcraft, racketing, retacking, trackings.
	+2 letters: bracketing, caretaking, kingcrafts, restacking, retackling, retracking.
	+3 letters: caretakings, reattacking, rejacketing, tracklaying, trafficking.
	+4 letters: backtracking, kickstarting, racketeering, sidetracking, tracklayings.
	+5 letters: multitracking.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.