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 o ...
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 exis ...
, a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census
Writings
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Tract (literature)
A tract is a literary work and, in current usage, usually religious in nature. The notion of what constitutes a tract has changed over time. By the early part of the 21st century, a tract referred to a brief pamphlet used for religious and poli ...
, a short written work, usually of a political or religious nature
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Tract (liturgy)
The tract (Latin: tractus) is part of the proper of the Christian liturgical celebration of the Eucharist, used instead of the Alleluia in Lent or Septuagesima, in a Requiem Mass, and other penitential occasions, when the joyousness of an Alleluia ...
, a component of Roman Catholic liturgy
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Treatise
A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject, generally longer and treating it in greater depth than an essay, and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject and its conclusions." Tre ...
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 sys ...
, 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 polyglutamine tract or polyQ tract is a portion of a protein consisting of a sequence of several glutamine units. A tract typically consists of about 10 to a few hundred such units.
A multitude of genes, in various eukaryotic species (including h ...
* 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 organs of the digestive system, in humans and ...
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Genitourinary tract
The genitourinary system, or urogenital system, are the organs of the reproductive system and the urinary system. These are grouped together because of their proximity to each other, their common embryological origin and the use of common pathw ...
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Reproductive tract
** A grouping of
feathers
Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on both avian (bird) and some non-avian dinosaurs and other archosaurs. They are the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates and a premier ...
, e.g. primaries, auricular, scapular
Businesses
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Tract (imprint), an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
See also
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Track (disambiguation)
Track or Tracks may refer to:
Routes or imprints
* Ancient trackway, any track or trail whose origin is lost in antiquity
* Animal track, imprints left on surfaces that an animal walks across
* Desire path, a line worn by people taking the short ...
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