TRACKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tracking mean? 

• TRACKING (noun)
  The noun TRACKING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TRACKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRACKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

tracking; trailing

Hypernyms ("tracking" is a kind of...):

chase; following; pursual; pursuit (the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Derivation:

track (go after with the intent to catch)

 Context examples 

There are a number of large pieces traveling the Earth's orbit, and tracking their path can help prevent their potentially destructive impact.

(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

The D&B D-U-N-S Number is used by industries and organizations around the world as a global standard for business identification and tracking.

(DUNS Number, NCI Thesaurus)

However, 2012 TC4 traveled out of the range of asteroid-tracking telescopes shortly after it was discovered.

(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)

Tracking this water movement with imaging technology may one day provide valuable information on normal brain activity, as well as how injury or disease affect brain function.

(Neurons absorb and release water when firing, National Institutes of Health)

When plants were tracking the sun, the east side of the stem grew more rapidly than the west side, he found.

(Sunflowers move from east to west, and back, by the clock, NSF)

Scientists had been regularly tracking the star, called NGC 2547-ID8, when it surged with a huge amount of fresh dust between August 2012 and January 2013.

(Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup, NASA)

Using a novel method for visually tracking microglial movements in the retina, they determined that the returning microglia initially grew in clusters near where the optic nerve leaves the eye.

(Immune cells in the retina can spontaneously regenerate, National Institutes of Health)

A computer-based tracking and submission system for statements, bills, invoices, and related information corresponding to the payment for goods or services.

(Electronic Billing System, NCI Thesaurus)

A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to device tracking and disposition.

(Device Tracking and Disposition Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

A terminology codelist based on the verbatim or preprinted term for the device tracking and disposition event that occurs.

(CDISC SDTM Device Tracking and Disposition Event Dictionary Derived Term Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)