1
: the assigning of students to a curricular track
2
: the standard distance between adjacent characters (as in composed text) : letterspacing compare kerning
Examples of tracking in a Sentence
took a class in the tracking of game that the hunters' association offers
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Most tags only contain limited information, such as name, flight number and baggage IDs, and airlines' tracking systems can sometimes detect if a claim is fake by reviewing baggage scan logs and RFID tagging.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The couple’s funding spans climate modeling, biodiversity tracking and tools that help collect and share scientific data openly, with an emphasis on the ocean.
—Elisabeth Brier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
See things in a new way Zuckerberg's on-stage Ray-Ban Display demo was missing the optical hand-tracking seen in last year's Orion demonstrations.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
GasBuddy is a price-tracking website designed to help motorists find the cheapest gas prices in their areas.
—Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The couple’s funding spans climate modeling, biodiversity tracking and tools that help collect and share scientific data openly, with an emphasis on the ocean.
—Elisabeth Brier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
See things in a new way Zuckerberg's on-stage Ray-Ban Display demo was missing the optical hand-tracking seen in last year's Orion demonstrations.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
GasBuddy is a price-tracking website designed to help motorists find the cheapest gas prices in their areas.
—Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Tracking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tracking. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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