title: Tract
text: # Tract
  
  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
  