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tract1

Pronunciation: /trakt/
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Definition of tract

noun

  • 1an area of land, typically a large one:large tracts of natural forest
  • an indefinitely large extent of something:it took courage to privatize vast tracts of nationalized industry
  • 2a major passage in the body, large bundle of nerve fibres, or other continuous elongated anatomical structure or region:the digestive tract

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'duration or course of time'): from Latin tractus 'drawing, draught', from trahere 'draw, pull'

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