Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) Traces of material carried out of an area as a result of sticking to clothing, vehicles, etc.
2. (countable, film, television) A backward movement of the camera, showing a wider field.
3. (car racing) The exit of a curve when the car has just fully straightened out.
4. 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

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

EPA alleged that the firm failed to install trackout control devices at its construction sites that would remove particulate matter from vehicles. It also failed to perform immediate cleanup of dirt tracked out 50 feet beyond the site […]

[…] the programme-devisers proceeded to obfuscate his words by visual gimmickry — laborious trackouts to accommodate superimposed graphics and slogans; stills and film cuts which were either banal or funny.

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

As the shot reaches its conclusion, it transforms itself, through a trackout, from a medium-shot into a long-shot, as if to emphasize further the already disconcerting mixture of intimacy and distance we feel in the scene.

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.

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

At corner exits leading onto straights, gradually increase the throttle as the drift straightens back out to the trackout point, where the throttle is wide open, and you are accelerating onto the straightaway.

Word Forms

• trackouts

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Use trackout when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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