English

Adjective

trackable ‎(comparative more trackable, superlative most trackable)

1. Able to be tracked, or worthy of being tracked.
   • 1867, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round, v. 17, pg. 496:

     The footsteps were trackable on the grass, but not on it, and were visible on the harrowed ground.

   • 1971, Wernher von Braun, "Mariner 9 to Mars," Popular Science, November 1971, pg. 64:

     The long flight to Mars and the even longer orbiting time of a precisely trackable spacecraft will enable scientists to refine the accuracy of our data bank on true distances across the solar system, the exact shape of the planet Mars, and possible anomalies in its gravitational field caused by mass concentrations (mascons).

   • 2007, "Report Faults NASA on Equipment Losses," Bloomberg News, in The New York Times, July 26, 2007:

     Instead of tightening controls, it relaxed them, making $10,000 the minimum value for trackable items, instead of $5,000, the report said.