Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To divide by cutting transversely.
- noun A usually straight line along which measurements or observations are made at regular intervals, as for purposes of ecological study.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In phytogeography, a cross-section (or representation of one) of the vegetation of a station or larger unit.
- To cut across; dissect transversely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to
divide something bycutting transversely - noun a
path along which aresearcher moves, counts and records hisobservations
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cut across or divide transversely
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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(The transect is a tool New Urbanists use to analyze land use by dividing types of use from the rural to the urban into six zones.)
Frank Gruber: Report From the Denver New Urbanism Congress, Part 2 2009
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A transect is a path used by researchers to survey a geographic area.
RVABlogs 2008
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A transect is a path used by researchers to survey a geographic area.
RVABlogs 2008
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PRA techniques, such as transect walks and mapping are used to bring villagers 'attention to routes of disease spread from faeces
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2 The word is "transect", " To dissect transversely", or the noun deriving from that word; not "transept", used TWICE fer chrissake: "the transverse part of a cruciform church" both OED.
Ivorybills 2006
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2 The word is "transect", " To dissect transversely", or the noun deriving from that word; not "transept", used TWICE fer chrissake: "the transverse part of a cruciform church" both OED.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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An abrupt turn, though, could cause water in the compartments, which often transect the hull, to shift to one side, potentially causing a vessel of that size to roll, the naval engineer said, emphasizing it was too early to determine what caused the Concordia to list.
Rescue Hampered by Shifting Ship Stacy Meichtry 2012
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In 2004 we began five years of grueling systematic line transect surveys, covering 14,000 kilometres 8,700 miles of ocean track line, logging over 2,000 sightings of marine mammals and close to 15,000 sightings of marine birds.
Chris Genovali: Canada's Pacific Coast: Priceless and Irreplaceable Chris Genovali 2011
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Does he take one very long walk and do a transect survey?
Wisconsin Senator Demands Firing of State Deer Managers 2009
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Video: Reuters / Photo: AP An abrupt turn, though, could cause water in the compartments, which often transect the hull, to shift to one side, potentially causing a vessel of that size to roll, the naval engineer said, emphasizing it was too early to determine what caused the Concordia to list.
Scrutiny on Captain's Final Actions Stacy Meichtry 2012
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