transect

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I am still walking my transect, and though it occasionally passes through patches of Blue Berries and forests lined with Wood Sorrel, I know that the real value is to be found in the dense and thorny brambles of doubt and difficulty.

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  1. transitive verb To divide by cutting transversely.

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  • The issue of Australian Zoologist devoted to kangaroo counting makes it clear that line transect is actually the 'Rolls Royce' end of the industry, particularly the walked version (opposite to Rosslyn's statement). —  The Canberra Times
  • In southeastern Perú, AG territories occupied 16\% to 39\% of a 12 km transect, depending on habitat type —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Here, using metagenomic data in natural ocean samples, we show that about 60\% of the psbA genes in surface water along the global ocean sampling transect are of phage origin, and that the phage genes are undergoing an independent selection for distinct D1 proteins. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Inconsistent Effects of a Feature on Home Prices-Lang's Two-Market Explanation, which finds a link between appropriateness between the transect and type of housing. —  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space
  • Ant species richness increased linearly with elevation along two transects and peaked at mid-elevation along a third transect. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. trans- + -sect.

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  1. transect(ion).
  2. from Latin trans, across, + secare, past participle sectus, cut: see section.
 

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/trænˈsɛkt/
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