Tract Explained

Tract may refer to:

Geography and real estate

• Housing tract, an area of land that is subdivided into smaller individual lots
• Land lot or tract, a section of land
• Census tract, a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census

Writings

• Tract (literature), a short written work, usually of a political or religious nature
• Tract (liturgy), a component of Roman Catholic liturgy
• Treatise

Biology

• Nerve tract, a bundle of fibers that connects different parts of the central nervous system - analogous to a nerve in the peripheral nervous system
• A genetic tract, a sequence of repeating nucleotides or amino acids, such as a polyglutamine tract
• A collection of related anatomic structures, such as:
  • Gastrointestinal tract
  • Genitourinary tract
  • Reproductive tract
  • A grouping of feathers, e.g. primaries, auricular, scapular

Businesses

• Tract (imprint), an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content

See also

• Track (disambiguation)