Trace Meaning

"Those are the times you write it off, experience / Walk away, and leave no trace / Cause that night, love had no face" — 1983, Ashford & Simpson, “Experience (Love Had No Face)”, in High-Rise (album):

"The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures." — 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

"And by mornin' Gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean" — 2014 October 27, Taylor Swift, Imogen Heap, “Clean (Taylor's Version)”, in 1989 (Taylor's Version), performed by Taylor Swift, published 27 October 2023:

"[S]upposing the NP has raised in (18), the potential bindees are the clitic and the trace of the focalized NP, neither of which qualifies as a syntactic variable." — 1999, Georges Rebuschi, Laurice Tuller, The Grammar of Focus, page 290:

"Vena contracta is defined as the narrowest portion of the regurgitant jet, seen at its origin. In all of the cases, it was assumed that the MR severity was downgraded by general anesthesia because of reduced afterload conditions. In cases where MR was determined to be trace, mild, or moderate, the afterload was manipulated by bolus injections of phenylephrine to approximate the preanesthesia, awake blood pressure. The final MR grade was assigned after this maneuver was completed. If conflicting results were observed for different criteria, the reviewing anesthesiologist made a judgment as to the final grade of MR." — 2005, Schroder JN, Williams ML, Hata JA, Muhlbaier LH, Swaminathan M, Mathew JP, Glower DD, O'Connor CM, Smith PK, Milano CA, Impact of Mitral Valve Regurgitation Evaluated by Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography on Long-Term Outcomes After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: