"traceback" meaning in English

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          "text": "... which appears in the top line of the traceback, looking for the point at which the system is likely to have become corrupted . The ability to read and use tracebacks is a skill no MOO administrator should be without .",
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          "text": "This is a single-stage traceback. It begins by announcing itself as a traceback and then gives a location in line 1 of \"<stdin>\" (i.e., your typing, or standard input). It also specifies any method that the exception is raised in: in[…]",
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