tracing
/ˈtɹeɪsɪŋ/ noun B2- The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.
- A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.
- The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
- A regular path or track; a course.
Plural tracings
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There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.
I have a tracing which will make it complete.
“As a means of tracing him, if he wished to inquire about him from any third person.
Albert, besides being an elegant, well-looking young man, was also possessed of considerable talent and ability; moreover, he was a viscount—a recently created one, certainly, but in the present day it is not necessary to go as far back as Noah in tracing a descent, and a genealogical tree is equally estimated, whether dated from 1399 or merely 1815; but to crown all these advantages, Albert de Morcerf commanded an income of 50,000 livres, a more than sufficient sum to render him a personage of considerable importance in Paris.
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