1
: the assigning of students to a curricular track
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: the standard distance between adjacent characters (as in composed text) : letterspacing compare kerning
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The Coast Guard has deployed tracking buoys to monitor ice movement, which could provide valuable clues in locating the plane.
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
Evading professional astronomers Musk’s sports car managed to sneak back up on the professionals charged with tracking objects in our solar system for several reasons.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
Although it hasn’t been tested yet, many legal experts believe that putting a tracking device on a fleeing vehicle would be legal as the vehicle is being used in the commission of a crime.
—Jason Ogaard, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
In the Billboard tracking week ending Jan. 30, the song earned 5.4 million official U.S. streams, up 30%, according to Luminate.
Lil Wayne and Drake’s coronation isn’t the only thing happening in the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top 10 this week.
—Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2025
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
Evading professional astronomers Musk’s sports car managed to sneak back up on the professionals charged with tracking objects in our solar system for several reasons.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
Although it hasn’t been tested yet, many legal experts believe that putting a tracking device on a fleeing vehicle would be legal as the vehicle is being used in the commission of a crime.
—Jason Ogaard, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
In the Billboard tracking week ending Jan. 30, the song earned 5.4 million official U.S. streams, up 30%, according to Luminate.
Lil Wayne and Drake’s coronation isn’t the only thing happening in the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top 10 this week.
—Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Tracking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tracking. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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