Tracking vs. Trekking: What's the Difference?

Tracking and Trekking Definitions
Tracking
The placing of students in any of several courses of study according to ability, achievement, or needs. Also called ability grouping.
Trekking
To make a slow or arduous journey.
Tracking
The position of a magnetic tape as it moves across magnetic heads, as in a VCR.
Trekking
To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
Tracking
The lateral pressure of a phonograph needle as it tracks in a groove.
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Trekking
South African To travel by ox wagon.
Tracking
The act or process by which something is tracked.
Trekking
A journey or leg of a journey, especially when slow or difficult.
Tracking
(typography) A consistent adjustment of space between individual letters; letterspacing.
Trekking
South African A journey by ox wagon, especially a migration such as that of the Boers from 1835 to 1837.
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Tracking
(education) The division of pupils into separately taught groups by perceived ability level.
Trekking
Present participle of trek
Tracking
Present participle of track
Trekking
Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport, usually for a longer period of time than for hiking.
Tracking
The pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind
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