Trace

Trace may refer to:

Music

 * Trace (Son Volt album), 1995
 * Trace (Died Pretty album), 1993
 * Trace (band), a Dutch progressive rock band
 * The Trace (album), by Nell

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
 * Trace, the protagonist of Axiom Verge
 * Trace, another name for Portgas D. Ace, 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), 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

Computing and electronics

 * TRACE, a request method in the HTTP 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, report of the active steps of a computer program's execution
 * Trace cache, a specialized CPU cache to speed up executable instruction fetch

Mathematics

 * Trace (linear algebra), 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 (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer), a NASA satellite
 * Trace element, 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 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), a scenic roadway in Kentucky and Tennessee
 * Trace Creek (Castor River), a stream in Missouri
 * Trace Creek (Cub Creek), a stream in Missouri
 * Trace Creek (Twelvemile Creek), a stream in Missouri
 * Trace Lake, a lake in Minnesota

Other uses

 * Trace (name), a given name, nickname, and surname
 * A synonym for trail, 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
 * An Italian-derived synonym for star fort, 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), a website covering gun issues in the United States