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One use for a GPS
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tracking
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Wikipedia
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Tracking is a technique in which dogs are trained to locate certain objects by using the object's scent , for a variety of purposes. Tracking has always been an essential skill for dogs to survive in the wild, through hunting and tracking down potential ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES tracking station EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In the tracking room he took a seat at the desk and listened while Clarac explained the system. ▪ The birds are radio-tagged for tracking . ▪ The whole thing is here, complete ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Track \Track\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tracked ; p. pr. & vb. n. tracking .] To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow. It was often found impossible to track the robbers ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is tracked. vb. (present participle of track English)
Usage examples of tracking.
Stella Morton, whose jumping-bean ambience seemed to add up to a hazard, and was tracking around to her with a firing arm when a third force brought it up short.
Animulae, of course, being birds, but were used in rounding up and tracking, and any Animist was expected to know how to work and train such a common species.
The ICP tracking system in there would have helped monitor and catch Auric criminals that used their powers to escape punishment.
Once Cormac had blown through his nostrils like a tracking hound, Samaire and Bas did the same.
Morty Beyers started tracking him down, so some of the prelim is already done.
Paul felt daunted by the prospect of tracking down his friends in this great rathole of humanity.
The sinistrals bade their dextrier mounts continue with their airborne tracking.
He had been tracking the beast and still the drack managed to elude him.
Bigelow built into their prototype predictor the feedback circuits needed to incorporate the tracking data derived from radar signals reflecting off enemy warplanes, and to feed that stream of new inputs to the computers targeting apparatus.
Isadora had been furious when she was told, and it had taken both of the more serene Fyne sisters to keep her from tracking down Kane and exacting her own style of revenge.
So expert were the hunters at tracking, they could identify the individual footprints of each member of the clan, and their sharp eyes would easily have seen broken-off shoots or disturbed earth from dug-up bulbs or roots if she had gathered any food.
Having determined that the ancient Egyptians made use of the phenomenon of precession, Sellers then focused, to the exclusion of all else, on the idea that the ancients were tracking the heliacal rising of Orion at the spring equinox.
His face, hirsute yet full of that strange masculine intelligence, seemed to concentrate on a thought, tracking it intensely.
He sent Leronica letters by way of jihadi soldiers assigned to the tracking station, even an occasional gift.
It is also responsible for tracking NSA couriers and locating missing employees.