trace

Tracing in art, copying a selective part or whole of an object or drawing by laying a transparent or translucent sheet (tracing paper) over the object and following it with an implement such as a pencil or pen, transferring its image onto the sheet.

Tracing (computer graphics), edge detection via algorithms used in digital image processing to automatically generate tracings of objects.

Tracing (law), a process by which a claimant demonstrates the disposition, proceeds, handlers and receivers of property, with the intent to be awarded a claim based on this information.

Tracing (as with a gun or camera), following the path of an object to perform an action. Tracer ammunition, usually used with machine guns, is used to allow a gunner to trace the path of the bullets.

Tracing (software), a method of debugging in computer programming by reporting the intermediate state of a system, computation or algorithm.

Tracing (criminology), originally a subject concerning setting up traces of occurrence of objects generated from trace evidence left in momentary locations.

dye tracing

Tracking and tracing, concerns a process starting with determining the current and past locations and other status of property in transit. Tracking and tracing is the completion of this process with uniformly building a track of such property that are forwarded to, processed for, applied in or disposed of usage.

tracer

Call tracing, a procedure in telephony that permits an entitled user to be informed about the routing of data for an established connection or to store such information for later building a set of traces from archived data.