0 past simple and past participle of retrace
1 to go back over something, for example a path or a series of past actions:
In a groupoid such a notion can be defined between different start and end points provided the path can be 'retraced' or 'reverted'.
The flagged path was retraced and measured after three consecutive days of follows.
But even at these late stages in the process of transformation steps are retraced.
How meaning is retraced presents more problems, and is less clearly outlined in the literature.
In general, retraced false starts move from incorrect forms to correct forms, indicating that the incorrect forms are produced quickly, whereas the correct rote forms take time to activate.
This, however, is a matter of consolation; it is always to be remembered that this step may be retraced.
We may be wrong, my fears may be groundless, but the step, once taken, cannot be retraced.
Without turmoil, without agitation and with astonishingly little fuss that informed democracy was able to bring it about that that step has been retraced.
