Trace may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

* ''Trace'' (Son Volt album), 1995 * ''Trace'' (Died Pretty album), 1993 * Trace (band), a Dutch progressive rock band * ''The Trace'' (album), by Nell

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* ''Trace'' (magazine), British hip-hop magazine * ''Trace'' (manhwa), a Korean internet cartoon * ''Trace'' (manga), a Japanese manga series by Kei Koga * ''Trace'' (novel), a novel by Patricia Cornwell * ''The Trace'' (film), a 1994 Turkish film * ''The Trace'' (video game), 2015 video game * ''Sama'' (film), alternate title ''The Trace'', a 1988 Tunisian film * Trace, a fictional character in the game '' Metroid Prime Hunters'' * Trace, the protagonist of '' Axiom Verge'' * Trace, another name for Portgas D. Ace, a fictional character in the manga ''One Piece'' * Trace, the main brand for a number of music channels such as Trace Urban

Language

* Trace (deconstruction), a concept in Derridian deconstruction * Trace (linguistics), a syntactic placeholder resulting from a transformation * TRACE (psycholinguistics), a psycholinguistic model of speech perception * Trace (semiology), the history carried by a sign * Sign-trace, a detectable amount conceived of by Béatrice Galinon-Mélénec

Mathematics, science, and technology

Computing and electronics

* TRACE, a request method in the

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protocol * Traces, the equivalence classes of strings of a trace monoid, studied in trace theories of concurrent computation * Digital traces, the traces of activities and behaviours that people leave when they interact in digital environments * Packet trace, a timestamped sequence of packets captured on a computer network with a sniffer or similar tools * Signal trace, a printed or etched wire on a printed circuit board * Stack trace, report of the active steps of a computer program's execution * Trace cache, a specialized CPU cache to speed up executable instruction fetch * Trace table, a table used to test algorithms to ensure that no logical errors in calculation have occurred.

Mathematics

* Trace (linear algebra), the sum of the elements on the main diagonal of a square matrix or a linear transformation ** Field trace, a particular trace in field theory * Trace class, a certain set of operators in a Hilbert space * Trace operator, a restriction-to-boundary operator in a Sobolev space

Physical sciences

* TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer), a NASA satellite * Trace element, an element which composes less than 0.1% of a sample * Trace evidence, material found at a crime scene * Trace fossil, fossil record of biological activity * Trace radioisotope, an element that is found in small quantities because it undergoes radioactive decay * Seismic trace, in seismology, record of ground movement from a seismograph * Trace (precipitation), in earth science, an amount of precipitation that falls that is too small to be measured with standard units

Places

* Trace, West Virginia * The Trace (Land Between the Lakes), a scenic roadway in Kentucky and Tennessee * Trace Creek (Castor River), a stream in Missouri * Trace Creek (Cub Creek), a stream in Missouri * Trace Creek (Twelvemile Creek), a stream in Missouri * Trace Lake, a lake in Minnesota

Other uses

* Trace (name), a given name, nickname, and surname * A synonym for

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, as in Natchez Trace * Trace (tack), part of a draft animal's gear * Track and trace, in goods distribution and logistics * Trace, a type of eyeblink conditioning * An Italian-derived synonym for

star fort A bastion fort or ''trace italienne'' (a phrase derived from non-standard French, meaning 'Italian outline') is a fortification in a style developed during the early modern period in response to the ascendancy of gunpowder weapons such as c ...

, in fortification * Trade reporting and compliance engine, in the U.S. financial markets, a reporting system for US bond transactions administered by the FINRA * The Trace (website), a website covering gun issues in the United States