transect
IPA: trˈænsɛkt
noun
- A path along which a researcher moves to count and record observations or collect data.
verb
- (transitive) To divide something by cutting transversely.
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Examples of "transect" in Sentences
- Transect for counting population.
- Transect is also a way of sampling populations.
- Her windpipe was completely transected in the attack.
- The concept of the transect was borrowed from ecology.
- Benthic infaunal variability on a transect in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Transect interval conditions the observation and recording resolutions.
- An important part of the survey is normally the field walk or transect .
- Professional scientists are also using the transect for independent research.
- The sternal plane is a coronal plane which transects the front of the sternum.
- Major oil and natural gas pipelines transect Aktobe and the surrounding region.