track

{
  "id": "MLC-T-DEF-001701",
  "term": "track",
  "field": "Defense and military",
  "definition": "1. A series of related contacts displayed on a data display console or other display device.\n\n2. To display or record the successive positions of a moving object.\n\n3. To lock onto a point of radiation and obtain guidance therefrom.\n\n4. To keep a gun properly aimed or to point a target-locating instrument continuously at a moving target.\n\n5. The actual path of an aircraft above or a ship on the surface of the Earth.\n\n6. One of the two endless belts on which a full-track or half-track vehicle runs.\n\n7. A metal part forming a path for a moving object such as the track around the inside of a vehicle for moving a mounted machine gun.",
  "references": [
    "JP 3-01"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/defense/track/"
}