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Definition of Tracing paper
1. Noun. A semitransparent paper that is used for tracing drawings.
Definition of Tracing paper
1. Noun. a translucent paper on which may be traced the design of whatever it is placed on ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tracing Paper
Literary usage of Tracing paper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen by Thomas Ewing French (1918)
"Lay a piece of tracing paper over the original and trace the outline carefully.
Turn the tracing over and retrace the outline just as carefully on the other ..."
2. A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen by Thomas Ewing French (1918)
"Lay a piece of tracing paper over the original and trace the outline carefully.
Turn the tracing over and retrace the outline just as carefully on the other ..."
3. A Treatise on Mine-surveying by Bennett Hooper Brough, Harry Dean (1920)
"Copying on Tracing-Paper. — A sheet of tracing-paper or tracing-cloth is fastened
with drawing-pins over the plan to be copied. The lines are then copied in ..."
4. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie (1897)
"Copying on Tracing.Paper. A thin transparent paper is prepared expressly ...
It is less transparent than the tracing.paper, but is very strong and durable. ..."
5. The Scientific American Cyclopedia of Formulas: Partly Based Upon the 28th by Albert Allis Hopkins (1910)
"The following is a capital method of preparing tracing paper for ... A little
practice will enable any one to make good tracing paper in this way at a ..."
6. A Treatise on Land-surveying: Comprising the Theory Developed from Five by William Mitchell Gillespie (1870)
"(469) Copying on tracing paper. A thin transparent paper is prepared expressly
for the purpose of making copies of maps and drawings, but it is too delicate ..."
7. A Manual of Topographical Drawing by Richard Somers Smith (1885)
"With the aid of tracing paper.—In employing this method, either separately or in
connection with that just described, spread the tracing paper perfectly ..."
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