Definitions for tracer

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tracer trac·er

Spelling: [trey-ser]

IPA: /ˈtreɪ sər/

Tracer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in tracer (acerrt).

Definitions for tracer

noun

1. a person or thing that traces.
2. a person whose business or work is the tracing of missing property, parcels, persons, etc.
3. an inquiry sent from point to point to trace a missing shipment, parcel, or the like, as in a transportation system.
4. any of various devices for tracing drawings, plans, etc.
5. Also called tracer ammunition. ammunition containing a chemical substance that causes a projectile to trail smoke or fire so as to make its path visible and indicate a target to other firers, especially at night.
6. the chemical substance contained in such ammunition.
7. a substance, especially a radioactive one, traced through a biological, chemical, or physical system in order to study the system.

Origin of tracer

First recorded in 1535-45; trace¹ + -er¹

Examples for tracer

Anything that goes out through it will have a tracer slapped onto it.

He didn't know that there was a German in the sky, until he saw the tracer bullets.

Suddenly, the darkness came alive with muzzle flashes and tracer rounds.

tracer bullets, each with a descending arc, were zinging all around as Rigg swung LCI(L)-88 to the right.

We discovered tonight that some kind of tracer material had been worked into all your clothes.

Below us, on Sultan Ismail Street, government troops thrust lances of tracer fire towards a horde of approaching cadavers.

Then build me a tracer detector that'll pick it up at high velocity.

That there tracer started to hum again soon after you was out for a while.

It was a hellishly unbuildable and deceptively simple gadget, that tracer.

Then work on the dry surface with tracer and stamps, as you would on wood or brass.