Trackout

Quick meaning: Trackout is a noun meaning (uncountable) Traces of material carried out of an area as a result of sticking to clothing, vehicles, etc.

Meaning

(uncountable) Traces of material carried out of an area as a result of sticking to clothing, vehicles, etc.

More Meanings

1. (countable, film, television) A backward movement of the camera, showing a wider field.
2. (car racing) The exit of a curve when the car has just fully straightened out.
3. Navigational assistance providing by tracking a boat or plane as it starts on a course, ensuring that it is following the correct trajectory.

Example Sentences

[…] Alfred Hitchcock's distorted-vision effect employing a trackout combined with a forward zoom in Vertigo (1958).

Mitigation measure AQ-C3 requires that paved roads be swept once a day to clean up dirt trackout from the construction site.

Try to concentrate on car placement and on the width of the track, along with braking, turn in, apex, trackout, and acceleration points.

It flattens out past the trackout and you could use this flat painted portion but you'd want to hustle the car back onto the racetrack proper.

Word Forms

• trackouts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include track, trackway, spoor, trackwalking, tracksite, undertrack.

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