Trace may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

* ''Trace'' (Son Volt album), 1995 * ''Trace'' (Died Pretty album), 1993 *

Trace (band) Trace was a Dutch progressive rock trio founded by Rick van der Linden in 1974 after leaving Ekseption. The band was formed in 1971 and released its debut album, "Trace," in 1974. The band's music was characterized by complex arrangements and in ...

, a Dutch progressive rock band * ''The Trace'' (album)

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* ''Trace'' (magazine), British hip-hop magazine * ''Trace'' (manhwa), a Korean internet cartoon * ''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 ''Metroid Prime Hunters'' is an action-adventure game published by Nintendo and developed by its Redmond-based subsidiary, Nintendo Software Technology, for the Nintendo DS. It was released in North America in March 2006, with other territorie ...

'' * Trace, the protagonist of ''

Axiom Verge ''Axiom Verge'' is a metroidvania video game by American indie developer Thomas Happ. The game was originally released in March 2015 in North America and April 2015 in Europe and Australia for PlayStation 4. It was released in May 2015 for Micro ...

'' * Trace, another name for

Portgas D. Ace The ''One Piece'' manga features an extensive cast of characters created by Eiichiro Oda. The series takes place in a fictional universe where vast numbers of pirates, soldiers, revolutionaries, and other adventurers fight each other, using var ...

, 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) Syntactic movement is the means by which some theories of syntax address discontinuities. Movement was first postulated by structuralist linguists who expressed it in terms of ''discontinuous constituents'' or ''displacement''. Some constituen ...

, 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 Béatrice Galinon-Mélénec (born 1949) is a French semiotician. She is professor emeritus of communication studies, specializing in the fields of anthropology of communication and the analysis of the non-verbal dimension of interpersonal communic ...

Mathematics, science, and technology

Computing and electronics

* TRACE, a request method in the

HTTP The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, ...

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 In computing, a stack trace (also called stack backtrace or stack traceback) is a report of the active stack frames at a certain point in time during the execution of a program. When a program is run, memory is often dynamically allocated in two p ...

, report of the active steps of a computer program's execution *

Trace cache In computer architecture, a trace cache or execution trace cache is a specialized instruction cache which stores the dynamic stream of instructions known as trace. It helps in increasing the instruction fetch bandwidth and decreasing power consumpt ...

, a specialized CPU cache to speed up executable instruction fetch

Mathematics

Trace (linear algebra) In linear algebra, the trace of a square matrix , denoted , is defined to be the sum of elements on the main diagonal (from the upper left to the lower right) of . The trace is only defined for a square matrix (). It can be proved that the trace o ...

, 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 Trace may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * Trace (Son Volt album), ''Trace'' (Son Volt album), 1995 * Trace (Died Pretty album), ''Trace'' (Died Pretty album), 1993 * Trace (band), a Dutch progressive rock band * The Trace (album), ''The ...

(Transition Region and Coronal Explorer), a NASA satellite * Trace element, in geochemistry, 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 meteorology, a trace denotes an amount of precipitation, such as rain or snow, that is greater than zero, but is too small to be measured by standard units or methods of measurement. The designation of a ''trace'' rather than zero is used to ind ...

, 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) The Woodlands Trace National Scenic Byway, also known as "The Trace," is the major north–south roadway that traverses the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in two counties in western Kentucky and northwestern Stewart County, Tenn ...

, a scenic roadway in Kentucky and Tennessee *

Trace Creek (Castor River) Trace Creek is a stream in Bollinger County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Castor River. Trace Creek most likely was named for an Indian path aong its course. See also *List of rivers of Missouri List of rivers in Miss ...

, a stream in Missouri *

Trace Creek (Cub Creek) Trace Creek is a stream in Washington County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Cub Creek. Trace Creek most likely was so named on account of a trail near its course. See also *List of rivers of Missouri List of rivers in M ...

, a stream in Missouri *

Trace Creek (Twelvemile Creek) Trace Creek is a stream in Madison County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Twelvemile Creek. Trace Creek was named for an Indian path near its course. See also *List of rivers of Missouri List of rivers in Missouri (U.S. ...

, a stream in Missouri *

Trace Lake Trace Lake is a lake in Todd County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Trace Lake was named for Ferdinand Trace, a pioneer who settled there. See also *List of lakes in Minnesota This is a list of lakes of Minnesota. Although promoted as the "L ...

, a lake in Minnesota

Other uses

Trace (name) Trace is the name of: Given name or nickname * Trace Adkins (born 1962), American country singer, songwriter, and actor * Trace Armstrong (born 1965), American former American football defensive end * Trace Balla, Australian children's writer and ...

, a given name, nickname, and surname * A synonym for

trail A trail, also known as a path or track, is an unpaved lane or small road usually passing through a natural area. In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a path or footpath is the preferred term for a pedestrian or hiking trail. Th ...

, 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 Eyeblink conditioning (EBC) is a form of classical conditioning that has been used extensively to study neural structures and mechanisms that underlie learning and memory. The procedure is relatively simple and usually consists of pairing an audit ...

* An Italian-derived synonym for

star fort A bastion fort or ''trace italienne'' (a phrase derived from non-standard French, literally meaning ''Italian outline'') is a fortification in a style that evolved during the early modern period of gunpowder when the cannon came to domin ...

, 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) ''The Trace'' is an American non-profit journalism outlet devoted to gun-related news in the United States. It was established in 2015 with seed money from the largest gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, which was founded by for ...

, a website covering gun issues in the United States