tran·sect
ˈtran(t)-ˌsekt 
: a sample area (as of vegetation) usually in the form of a long continuous strip
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Tom Mullen, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Prosecutor Steve Crump: Was David Leath in any way capable of any sort of voluntary movement after that bullet transected his brain?
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 14 July 2018
Anna Lagos, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
The transects have an approximate width of 275 meters and a total length of 213 kilometers, covering an area of 58.3 square kilometers.
—Anna Lagos, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
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Verb
This sprawls out between the city of Narbonne to the east and Carcassonne to the west, and from the Montagne Noire (Black Mountain range) in the north to the Canal du Midi in the south (a waterway constructed in the 17th century that transects half of France).
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Prosecutor Steve Crump: Was David Leath in any way capable of any sort of voluntary movement after that bullet transected his brain?
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 14 July 2018
Noun
The dataset includes three transects and three study blocks.
—Anna Lagos, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
The transects have an approximate width of 275 meters and a total length of 213 kilometers, covering an area of 58.3 square kilometers.
—Anna Lagos, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Transect.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transect. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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transect
transitive verb
tran·sect
tran-ˈsekt
: to cut transversely
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