Tracking
Typography
In typography, tracking is the process of uniformly increasing or decreasing
the space between all glyphs (letters) in a block of text. It is commonly confused with kerning, but these are two separate concepts. Tracking is sometimes called character spacing or letter spacing,
especially in reference to computer typesetting. A related concept is that of word spacing, which uniformly increases or
decreases the space between words.
Logistics
In logistics, tracking is the process of uniformly building a track of
objects that are forwarded to, processed for, applied in or disposed of usage. The obtained track hence is a map depicted or coordinates listed in real-time of the reckoned locations of the respective
object.
Tracking originally is subject of reckoning, concerning setting up a track on other objects momentarily viewed from the observer's own location. A
related concept is that of tracing, which uniformly describes the process of
retrospectively generating a trace.
Tracking should not be used synonymously to tracing in logistics. Both terms are used in conjunction as Tracking and Tracing for imposing
control on performing services of logistics.
Dog sports
Tracking is the action of a dog following a scent trail. In dog sports, there are tracking competitions.
Computer music
Tracking is the art of creating tracking
modules for the computer representation of music. See tracker
Finance
Tracking is a portfolio management tool, used for example by index funds, so
that the portfolio value always mirror the evolution of a stockmarket
index
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