Trace may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

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

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

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

Mathematics, science, and technology

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

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, in geochemistry, 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
• Trace3, an Irvine, California-based information technology company
• 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

See also

• Traceability
• Tracer (disambiguation)
• Tracing (disambiguation)
• Tracking (disambiguation)
• DTrace
• Human-Trace (Ichnos-Anthropos)