trackout

Noun

trackout (countable and uncountable, plural trackouts)

1. (uncountable) Traces 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
   • 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. (countable) A backward movement of the camera, showing a wider field.
   • […] 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
   • […] 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
3. (car racing) The exit of a curve when the car has just fully straightened out.
   • 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
   • 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
4. Navigational assistance providing by tracking a boat or plane as it starts on a course, ensuring that it is following the correct trajectory.
   • 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
   • Following the stringent safety code of MATS, they had requested and were being given a radar trackout1961 January, T.J. Slaybaugh, “Searched, Sighted, Saved”, in Airman, page 8