tracing (n.)

  1. the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline

  2. a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image

    [ Syn: trace ]

  3. the discovery and description of the course of development of something; the tracing of genealogies'

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