"trace forward" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It typically refers to the action of researching the past in order to find an answer to a current mystery, or to figure out the direction something is heading in the future. For example: We need to trace forward the timeline of events to figure out what caused this problem.
"The trace forward operation is becoming complex and widespread and may take weeks," the report said, referring to efforts to locate the seed shipments.
For three groups, backward contingencies were arranged, and two of these were designed to rule out a trace (forward) conditioning interpretation of the results.
Paul Mead, a C.D.C. epidemiologist at the Wallingford center, said the investigative team wanted to complete "a trace forward and a trace backward" of any contaminated mail found there.
This is an elementary caution constantly put on one side by amateurs, who tend to trace forward from a person of the same name who may well be unrelated.
(a) Friction force signals acquired on the surface of monocrystalline silicon both retrace (backward scan) and trace (forward scan) curves under different normal forces.
Chalara dieback of ash, caused by the fungus chalara fraxinea, was identified at the new Welsh sites during a "trace forward" inspection of young trees sourced from known infected nurseries.
Firstly, we run Marchal's algorithm in both directions (processing the trace forwards and then backwards).
It is full of motifs and strategies that can be traced forward to Mr. Prince's mature work.
That is potentially very useful to a present-day audience, provided that the relationships expressed in it can be traced forward through time; changes to the Code from the time of classification forward would need to be accounted for.
But while names in the FT30 index of 1952 such as Dunlop Rubber and Hawker Siddeley might be thought to belong to the past, they can be traced forward to a firm, Invensys, that still exists.
Tracing forward in time, human and fruit fly genomes have 13,034 and 8270 genes, respectively, belonging to these Ancestral HG; hence, 55 60% of human and fly protein-coding genes belong to HG present in the first animals.
