Tract may refer to:
Geography and real estate
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Housing tract, an area of land that is subdivided into smaller individual lots
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Land lot
In real estate, a lot or plot is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner(s). A plot is essentially considered a parcel of real property in some countries or immovable property (meaning practically the same thing) in ...
or tract, a section of land
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Census tract
A census tract, census area, census district or meshblock is a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census. Sometimes these coincide with the limits of cities, towns or other administrative areas and several tracts commonly exist ...
, a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census
Writings
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Tract (literature), a short written work, usually of a political or religious nature
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Tract (liturgy), a component of Roman Catholic liturgy
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Treatise
Biology
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Nerve tract
A nerve tract is a bundle of nerve fibers (axons) connecting nuclei of the central nervous system. In the peripheral nervous system this is known as a nerve, and has associated connective tissue. The main nerve tracts in the central nervous syste ...
, a bundle of fibers that connects different parts of the central nervous system - analogous to a nerve in the peripheral nervous system
* A genetic tract, a sequence of repeating nucleotides or amino acids, such as a
polyglutamine tract
* A collection of related anatomic structures, such as:
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Gastrointestinal tract
The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The GI tract contains all the major organ (biology), organs of the digestive syste ...
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Genitourinary tract
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Reproductive tract
** A grouping of
feathers, e.g. primaries, auricular, scapular
Businesses
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Tract (imprint)
Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, its book production is based on print-to-order technology.
The company publis ...
, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
See also
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Track (disambiguation)
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