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TRACKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb track
Context examples:
The isolation and analysis of CTCs may thus be a useful method for tracking how cancers evolve during therapy.
(Isolated cancer cells may lead to personalized treatments, NIH)
The study team conducted eye-tracking experiments in a group of 250 typically developing toddlers ages 18 to 24 months.
(Children’s visual engagement is heritable and altered in autism, National Institutes of Health)
The findings have implications for tracking how malignant cells spread through the body or how infections might be treated.
(Bacteria change behavior to tackle tiny obstacle course, National Science Foundation)
The algorithms enabled automatic feature tracking to measure the distance that distinctive spots on the glaciers, such as crevasses or patches of dirt, traveled between an earlier and a later image.
(NASA Finds Asian Glaciers Slowed by Ice Loss, NASA)
They're tracking how marsh plants grow in a world with carbon dioxide levels nearly twice as high as today — levels we could see by the end of the century.
(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)
When asked about tracking animal poop, McConkey admitted, "I've got two boys so they just love what I do."
(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)
Controlling how much chocolate people eat and tracking them for long periods of time is not an easy task.
(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The results showed iron, indicating blood, in macrophages (the brain’s immune cells) tracking along the vessels seen on the initial MRI as well as in extended areas beyond that seen on MRI.
(Microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury, National Institutes of Health)
A designated person who is trained and responsible for coordinating adverse event review, tracking, surveillance and reporting activities within a clinical institution or clinical trial.
(Adverse Event Coordinator, NCI Thesaurus)
The CBRG also supports the development of databases and informatics systems to optimize tracking and assessment of biomarker utility and expression patterns.
(Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, NCI Thesaurus)
