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Tracking vs Tracer - What's the difference?

tracking | tracer |

As nouns the difference between tracking and tracer

is that tracking is the act by which something is tracked while tracer is tracer.

As a verb tracking

is .

tracking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is tracked.
  • * 1963 , Abraham C. Keller, The Telling of Tales in Rabelais: Aspects of His Narrative Art
    • In volume, the erudite studies of his language, the trackings of his numerous references to persons, places, and things around him, and the reconstruction of the details of his little-known life have occupied the most attention

    tracer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) A chemical used to track the progress or history of a natural process.
  • A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.
  • The act of tracking or investigating something.
  • A person who traces something.

    • Anagrams

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