Track
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The word track can have different meanings:
- a railroad track: see rail tracks
- a trail, informal road or pathway
- a copper trace or line on a PCB
- a distinct section (mostly on song) of a sound recording, such as a gramophone record, compact disc, audio cassette and other recording media.
- a circular segment of a hard disk or other storage media
- caterpillar tracks, the large (modular) tracks used on tanks and certain other off-road vehicles or such vehicles themselves (combat vehicles and bulldozers and some excavators.)
- a course laid out for running or racing, commonly oval-shaped, see
- the measured distance between right and left side wheels of a vehicle, as opposed to wheelbase
- in particle physics, a track is the reconstruction of the path of a charged particle from signals recorded in a detector.
- in film and television production, 'track' has two meanings:
- an instruction given by a film director or television director to move a camera towards or away from the subject it is recording, or
- the equipment used by to create a temporary set of rails on which a Camera Dolly can run to move the camera smoothly (see grip (job)).
