tracing
- noun
- /ˈtreɪsɪŋ/
- Specialized
- ray tracing
- bidirectional tracing
- contact tracing
Examples
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Further research using process tracing may provide more insight into the actual processing.
Academic text (1997) -
Most importantly, process tracing reveals key organizations within a policy system and their apparatus for making decisions.
Academic text (2001) -
During the first anorectal manometry, the child and parent could watch the tracing on the computer screen.
Academic text (2000) -
Tarrant turned on the power and started the EKG, watching the tracing feed emerge from the unit.
Fiction book (1997) -
The tracing protocol was adapted for all 204 patients, consisting of a total of 407 carotid scans.
Academic text (2016) -
Trace the sequence of function calls in your program by using tracing to diagnose the issue.
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The software employs tracing to analyze data flows and improve overall performance during runtime.
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Using tracing in software development allows engineers to reconstruct the events leading up to a crash.
Synonyms
A way of finding where something started, for example the source of a problem
Compounds
- Specialized
A part of a computer program that records the order of steps when it runs to help find bugs
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tracing is built on the root tract meaning 'to pull' or 'to draw', which gives the idea of following a line or path step by step. That's why in computing tracing means recording or following the path of events to find where a problem happened.