transect in English

verb
1
cut across or make a transverse section in.
A spokesman said: ‘A completely transected artery quickly seals itself off - one simply cannot die from losing only about a pint of blood.’
noun
1
a straight line or narrow section through an object or natural feature or across the earth's surface, along which observations are made or measurements taken.
Fifteen sets of nested plots were located at about 15 meter intervals along line transects perpendicular to the slope within the study areas.

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1. We conclude that the complete fishing survey index is a viable alternative to the transect indices.

2. First, I will transect the terminal ducts and separate the nipple areola complex from the underlying tissue.

3. We propose and test a transect survey design to estimate and map absolute density and biomass of abalone or other sedentary invertebrates.

4. The distribution of 40Ar/39Ar hornblende ages shows that most of the transect cooled through approximately 500 °C by ca. 1765 Ma, with two significant exceptions.

5. Studying the chemical composition in a transect from the outer layers of a Concretion towards the surrounding rocks, the researchers were able to crack some of the open questions.

6. 1 Data on the composition, structure and diversity of plant communities were gathered along a 1000-m Altitudinal transect from tropical seasonal dry forest to cloud forest on calcareous Cerro Grande in Jalisco, Mexico

7. As part of the Eastern Canadian Shield Onshore–Offshore Transect (ECSOOT), Lithoprobe acquired 1250 km of deep seismic reflection data along the coast of Labrador and across Ungava Bay, to image evidence of Proterozoic crustal accretion to the Archean nuclei of the Nain and Superior provinces of the Canadian Shield.

8. Did you know that by identifying Bumblebee species you can help us to conserve them? You can do this by adding your Bumblebee sightings to the online wildlife recording survey iRecord, or by signing up for BeeWalk, our national monitoring scheme where you walk a short local transect once a month, recording the Bumblebees you see along the way.