Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may not be traced; showing no mark or trace.
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- adjective That has no
traces - adjective That cannot be
traced ;untraceable
Etymologies
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Examples
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The metric is a flat spacetime metric g_0 perturbed by a term h, and the traceless part of h will interact with material by the equation
New Pulsar "Clocks" Will Aid Gravitational Wave Detection | Universe Today 2010
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Her name, position, and salary remain nameless and traceless, for her funding resources are buried deep within the Pentagon's procurement budget and hide in the stock market under a street name account held by the CIA.
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All trace of enlightenment disappears, and this traceless enlightenment continues on without end.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007
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The vertices will contain traceless terms gam* (tW) which will contribute to a quadratic term in t which has a trace.
Dark Matter and Fifth Forces Sean 2008
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For gravity I turn to the Weyl tensor C_ {abcd}, which is the traceless component of Riemann curvature tensor for spacetime, and in spinor form this may be written as
Dark Matter: Still Dark. Julianne 2008
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This arrangement allows for traceless, taxless spending and depositing.
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Melt into the distance, into any city or country house across the globe, traceless, unless the buyer wished to be known.
The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007
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"If we could turn all their calories into traceless joules, we'd be wealthy men."
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Almost traceless, since they got all that great info from Ahmed Chalabi.
Archive 2004-11-01 2004
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Every single instance was traceless, leaving not a single clue behind, not even a blip on the energy or heat sensors, or the slightest joggle of the seismic detectors.
Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001
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