Tracing

n.	1.	The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.
	2.	A regular path or track; a course. Tracing cloth specially prepared transparent cloth or paper, which enables a drawing or print to be clearly seen through it, and so allows the use of a pen or pencil to produce a facsimile by following the lines of the original placed beneath.

Noun	1.	tracing - the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline
	2.	tracing - drawing created by tracing Synonyms: trace

apograph, black and white, brouillon, carbon, carbon copy, cartoon, charcoal, charcoal drawing, chiaroscuro, companion, copy, crayon, dead ringer, delineation, design, diagram, doodle, double, draft, drawing, duplicate, duplication, ebauche, effigy, esquisse, exact likeness, fellow, fiche, graph, hectography, icon, idol, image, likeness, line drawing, living image, living picture, manifold, match, mate, microcopy, microfiche, microform, mimeography, miniature, mirroring, model, pastel, pen-and-ink, pencil drawing, photograph, picture, portrait, recording, reduplication, reflection, reproduction, reprography, resemblance, rough copy, rough draft, rough outline, rubbing, semblance, shadow, silhouette, silver-print drawing, similitude, simulacrum, sinopia, sketch, spit and image, spitting image, study, tenor, trace, transcript, transcription, transfer, twin, very image, very picture, vignette, xerography