trackout

plural trackouts

1. uncountableTraces of material carried out of an area as a result of sticking to clothing, vehicles, etc.

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

   2000, Reno Railroad Corridor, Reno: Environmental Impact Statement, page 8-220

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   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 […]

   2008, Construction Labor Report, volume 54, numbers 2661-2684, page 2008

2. countablebroadcastingA backward movement of the camera, showing a wider field.

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

   1977, John Aquino, Film in the Language Arts Class, page 14

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   […] 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.

   1966, Nation, numbers 185-209, page 133

   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.

   2012, Steven Rybin, Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film, page 44

3. countableuncountablecar racingThe exit of a curve when the car has just fully straightened out.

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

   2007, Richard Newton, Autocross Performance Handbook, page 145

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   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.

   2001, Carl Lopez, Going Faster!: Mastering the Art of Race Driving, page 114

   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.

   2007, Calvin Wan, Calvin Wan's Drifting Performance Handbook, page 49

   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.

   2013, Richmond Shreve, Instructor Candidate Manual

4. countableuncountableNavigational assistance providing by tracking a boat or plane as it starts on a course, ensuring that it is following the correct trajectory.

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

   1961 January, T.J. Slaybaugh, “Searched, Sighted, Saved”, in Airman, page 8

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

   1961 November, Jan A. Wells, “A Dangerous Attitude”, in The MATS Flyer, volume 8, number 11, page 26

   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

   2007, Phil Croucher, Private Helicopter Pilot Studies JAA BW, page 5-42