Meaning of trackout | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Traces of material carried out of an area as a result of sticking to clothing, vehicles, etc.
   uncountable
2. A backward movement of the camera, showing a wider field.
   countable
3. The exit of a curve when the car has just fully straightened out.
   countable, uncountable
4. Navigational assistance providing by tracking a boat or plane as it starts on a course, ensuring that it is following the correct trajectory.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Mitigation measure⟳ AQ-C3 requires that paved roads be swept once a day to clean⟳ up dirt trackout from the construction site.”

“EPA alleged that the firm failed to install⟳ trackout control⟳ devices at its construction sites that would remove⟳ particulate matter⟳ from vehicles. It also failed to perform⟳ immediate cleanup of dirt tracked out 50 feet beyond the site […]”

“[…] the programme-devisers proceeded to obfuscate his words by visual gimmickry — laborious trackouts to accommodate superimposed graphics and slogans; stills and film cuts which were either banal or funny.”

“[…] Alfred Hitchcock's distorted-vision effect employing a trackout combined with a forward⟳ zoom in Vertigo (1958).”

“As the shot reaches its conclusion, it transforms itself, through a trackout, from a medium-shot into a long-shot, as if to emphasize further the already disconcerting mixture of intimacy and distance we feel⟳ in the scene.”

“It flattens out past the trackout and you could use⟳ this flat painted portion but you'd want⟳ to hustle the car back onto the racetrack proper.”

“Try⟳ to concentrate on car placement and on the width of the track, along with braking, turn⟳ in, apex, trackout, and acceleration points.”

“At corner exits leading onto straights, gradually increase⟳ the throttle as the drift straightens back out to the trackout point⟳, where the throttle is wide open⟳, and you are accelerating onto the straightaway.”

“The tachometer reads 5,000 at track-out. You suggest⟳ that he try⟳ a later apex, with a correspondingly slower speed⟳ at the apex, so that the track-out line is straighter.”

“When Bob had completed a radio check with GCA for their radar trackout he called for the lineup check list.”

“Following the stringent safety code of MATS, they had requested and were being given a radar trackout”

“The full range of services available could include⟳: * Emergency Cloudbreak/ * Emergency No-compass Homing/ * Homing/ * Fix-only on 121.5 MHz/ * Track-out Assistance/ * Time & Distance Estimates”

CEFR level