# Trace

Trace may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Music

* Trace (Son Volt album), 1995
* Trace (Died Pretty album), 1993
* Trace (band), a Dutch progressive rock band
* The Trace (album), by Nell

### Other uses in arts and entertainment

* Trace (magazine), British hip-hop magazine
* Trace (manhwa), a Korean internet cartoon
* Trace (manga), a Japanese manga series by Kei Koga
* Trace (novel), a novel by Patricia Cornwell
* The Trace (film), a 1994 Turkish film
* The Trace (video game), 2015 video game
* Sama (film), alternate title The Trace, a 1988 Tunisian film
* Trace, a fictional character in the game Metroid Prime Hunters
* Trace, the protagonist of Axiom Verge
* Trace, another name for Portgas D. Ace, a fictional character in the manga One Piece
* Trace, the main brand for a number of music channels such as Trace Urban

## Language

* Trace (deconstruction), a concept in Derridian deconstruction
* Trace (linguistics), a syntactic placeholder resulting from a transformation
* TRACE (psycholinguistics), a psycholinguistic model of speech perception
* Trace (semiology), the history carried by a sign
* Sign-trace, a detectable amount conceived of by Béatrice Galinon-Mélénec

## Mathematics, science, and technology
### Computing and electronics

* TRACE, a request method in the HTTP protocol
* Traces, the equivalence classes of strings of a trace monoid, studied in trace theories of concurrent computation
* Digital traces, the traces of activities and behaviours that people leave when they interact in digital environments
* Packet trace, a timestamped sequence of packets captured on a computer network with a sniffer or similar tools
* Signal trace, a printed or etched wire on a printed circuit board
* Stack trace, report of the active steps of a computer program's execution
* Trace cache, a specialized CPU cache to speed up executable instruction fetch

### Mathematics

* Trace (linear algebra), the sum of the elements on the main diagonal of a square matrix or a linear transformation
** Field trace, a particular trace in field theory
* Trace class, a certain set of operators in a Hilbert space
* Trace operator, a restriction-to-boundary operator in a Sobolev space

### Physical sciences

* TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer), a NASA satellite
* Trace element, an element which composes less than 0.1% of a sample
* Trace evidence, material found at a crime scene
* Trace fossil, fossil record of biological activity
* Trace radioisotope, an element that is found in small quantities because it undergoes radioactive decay
* Seismic trace, in seismology, record of ground movement from a seismograph
* Trace (precipitation), in earth science, an amount of precipitation that falls that is too small to be measured with standard units

## Places

* Trace, West Virginia
* The Trace (Land Between the Lakes), a scenic roadway in Kentucky and Tennessee
* Trace Creek (Castor River), a stream in Missouri
* Trace Creek (Cub Creek), a stream in Missouri
* Trace Creek (Twelvemile Creek), a stream in Missouri
* Trace Lake, a lake in Minnesota

## Other uses

* Trace (name), a given name, nickname, and surname
* A synonym for trail, as in Natchez Trace
* Trace (tack), part of a draft animal's gear
* Track and trace, in goods distribution and logistics
* Trace, a type of eyeblink conditioning
* An Italian-derived synonym for star fort, in fortification
* Trade reporting and compliance engine, in the U.S. financial markets, a reporting system for US bond transactions administered by the FINRA
* The Trace (website), a website covering gun issues in the United States