Tracing
Tracing may refer to:
- Tracing (law), a process by which a one demonstrates the ownership of property, with the intent to be awarded a claim based on this information
- Tracing (criminology), a subject concerning setting up traces of occurrence of objects generated from trace evidence left at crime scenes
- Tracing of family members, service provided by the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- Tracing (as with a gun or camera), tracking an object, as with the use of tracer ammunition
- Tracing in art, copying an object or drawing, especially with the use of translucent tracing paper
- Vectorization (image tracing), digital image processing to convert raster graphics into vector graphics
- Tracing (software), a method of debugging in computer programming
- Call tracing, a procedure in telephony that permits an entitled user to be informed about the routing of data for an established connection
- Dye tracing, tracking various flows using dye added to the liquid in question
- Anterograde tracing and Retrograde tracing, biological research techniques used to map the connections of neurons from source to termination and from termination to source, respectively
In logistics
- Tracking and tracing, a process of monitoring the location and status of property in transit
See also
- Tracking
- Trace
- Tracer
- Ray tracing (disambiguation), techniques in computer graphics or physics