noun
definition
The period when the beam of the cathode-ray tube returns to its initial horizontal position in order to start the next line of the display.
verb
definition
To trace (a line, etc. in drawing) again.
definition
To go back over something, usually in an attempt of rediscovery.
example
He retraced his steps, and found his keys where he had dropped them.
Examples of retraces in a Sentence
Many weary hours are spent in setting baits, traps and wires, and, frequently, when the hunter retraces his steps to collect the quarry it is only to find it gone, devoured by some large animal that has visited his traps before him.
Having arrived at the end of the district he retraces his steps, reopens the whole of the stop-cocks, removes the meter diagram, takes it to the night complaint office, and enters in the " night inspection book " the records he has made.
The primary government is aristocratic. Patrician tyranny rouses the populace to revolt, and then democratic equality is established under a republic. Democratic excesses cause the rise of an empire, which, becoming corrupt, declines into barbarism, and, again emerging from it, retraces the same course.
And Phillips retraces the journey he made to England from the Caribbean, as a child in 1958.