trace: betydelser og definitioner

A visible mark, such as a footprint, made or left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing.

Evidence or an indication of the former presence or existence of something; a vestige.

A barely perceivable indication; a touch: spoke with a trace of sarcasm.

An extremely small amount.

A constituent, such as a chemical compound or element, present in quantities less than a standard limit.

A path or trail that has been beaten out by the passage of animals or people.

A way or route followed.

A line drawn by a recording instrument, such as a cardiograph.

Mathematics The point at which a line, or the curve in which a surface, intersects a coordinate plane.

Mathematics The sum of the elements of the principal diagonal of a matrix.

An engram.

To follow the course or trail of: trace a wounded deer; tracing missing persons.

To ascertain the successive stages in the development or progress of: tracing the life cycle of an insect; trace the history of a family.

To locate or discover by searching or researching evidence: trace the cause of a disease.

To draw (a line or figure); sketch; delineate.

To form (letters) with special concentration or care.

To copy by following lines seen through a sheet of transparent paper.

To follow closely (a prescribed pattern): The skater traced a figure eight.

To imprint (a design) by pressure with an instrument on a superimposed pattern.

To make a design or series of markings on (a surface) by such pressure on a pattern.

To record (a variable), as on a graph.

To make one's way along a trail or course: traced through the files.

To have origins; be traceable: linguistic features that trace to West Africa.

Occurring in extremely small amounts or in quantities less than a standard limit.

One of two side straps or chains connecting a harnessed draft animal to a vehicle or whiffletree.