"contact trace" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: contact traces [present, singular, third-person], contact tracing [participle, present], contact traced [participle, past], contact traced [past]
Etymology: Back-formation from contact tracing. Etymology templates: {{backform|en|contact tracing}} Back-formation from contact tracing Head templates: {{en-verb}} contact trace (third-person singular simple present contact traces, present participle contact tracing, simple past and past participle contact traced)
  1. (epidemiology) To identify everyone with whom a person carrying an infectious disease has come into contact since contracting the disease. Categories (topical): Coronavirus, Epidemiology Synonyms: contact-trace Related terms: contact tracer, contact tracing Translations (to identify everyone with whom a person carrying an infectious disease has come into contact): rastrear contactos (Spanish), rastrear los contactos (Spanish), theo dõi liên lạc (Vietnamese), truy tìm tiếp xúc (Vietnamese), truy vết tiếp xúc (Vietnamese), theo dõi các tiếp xúc (Vietnamese), theo dõi các liên hệ (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-contact_trace-en-verb-m7f0IDlT Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header Topics: epidemiology, medicine, sciences

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