Track or Tracks may refer to:
In nature:
- Animal tracks, imprints left on surfaces that an animal walk across
- Trackway, an ancient route of travel or track used by animals
In sport:
- Track cycling, a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially-built banked tracks
- Athletics (track and field), a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping; also known as "track and field", "track and field athletics", or just "track" in the US
- Race track, purpose-built facility for the conducting of races
- A synonym for cricket pitch, central strip of a cricket field between the wickets
In transport and navigation:
- Rail tracks, used on railways, which, together with railroad switches, guide trains without the need for steering
- Wheel gauge of a vehicle, or rail gauge
- Navigational track, the path a vessel or aircraft plots over ground
- An ocean track is used in flight planning for routing aircraft across an ocean, or ground track for overland navigation. Animal tracks are the imprints left behind in Soil, Snow, Mud, or other ground surfaces that an animal walk across A trackway is an ancient route of travel for people and/or animals Track cycling is a Bicycle racing Sport usually held on specially-built banked tracks or Velodromes (but many events are held at older velodromes where the A race track (or 'racetrack' or 'racing track' is a purpose-built facility for Racing of animals (eg A Cricket pitch is the central strip of the Cricket field between the Wickets The pitch is 1 chain or 22 yards (20 Rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the two parallel rails that make up a railway track. In Navigation, a course is the intended path of a vehicle over the surface of the Earth Flight planning is the process of producing a Flight plan to describe a proposed Aircraft flight It is the path of the aircraft as determined combination of heading, slip, and wind effects.
- Track (sat nav): an ordered set of points along a path in satellite navigation devices
- Caterpillar track, a belt providing motive traction for a tank or bulldozer
- Track (Trail), an informal road or pathway
In electronics and computing:
- Copper trace or Signal trace line on a printed circuit board
- Circular segment of a hard disk or other storage media (see also cylinder-head-sector)
- Commonly mistaken verbally, Trac is a web-based project management and bug-tracking tool. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS is the standard generic term for satellite navigation systems that provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning with global coverage Continuous tracks are large (modular tracks used on the so-called caterpillar Tanks construction equipment and certain other off-road vehicles A trail is a Path or Road used for Walking, Cycling, Cross-country skiing, or other activities In Electronics, a signal trace on a Printed circuit board (PCB is the equivalent of a Wire for conducting signals Each trace consists A printed circuit board, or PCB, is used to mechanically support and electrically connect Electronic components using conductive pathways or traces A hard disk drive ( HDD) commonly referred to as a hard drive, hard disk, or fixed disk drive, is a Non-volatile storage device Cylinder-head-sector, also known as CHS, was an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a Hard disk drive. Trac is an Open source, web-based Project management and bug-tracking tool
- Track+, project-management and bug tracking tool
In building:
- Track (lighting), a physical fixture used in track lighting
In audio-visual topics:
- Soundtrack, the recorded sound accompanying a visual medium such as a motion picture, television show, or video game
- Track (CD), consecutive set of sectors on the disc containing a block of data
- Control track, a sychronisation device used in video recording
In music:
- Track (song), an alternate name for a song or other distinct section of a sound recording
- One section of a multitrack recording
- Track Records, a record label founded in 1966 in London, England
- Tracks (album), 1998 four-disc box set by Bruce Springsteen
- Tracks (Collin Raye album), 2000 album by Collin Raye
In films:
- Tracks (Transformers), an Autobot in the Transformers series
- Tracks (1976 film), film written and directed by Henry Jaglom, starring Dennis Hopper
In printed media:
- Tracks (novel), book written by Louise Erdrich
- Tracks (magazine), monthly Australian surf magazine
In physics:
- Event reconstruction of a charged particle's path in relation to a particle accelerator or particle detector
See also
- Tracker
- Tracking
- Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, known by the acronym TRACS
Dictionary
track
-noun
- A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
- The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- A road; a beaten path.
- Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- The permanent way; the rails.
- A tract or area, as of land.
- (automotive) The distance between the centerlines of two tires, measured where the tires contact the surface of the road (also track width)
- (cricket) The pitch.
- Sound stored on a record (or the physical track on one).
- Circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- (uncountable) (sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
-verb
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