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  • noun Plural form of transect.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of transect.

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Examples

  • "It's been four to five weeks of 24-hour days," said Rachel Marshall, 25, a student from Tampa, Fla. master plan includes four "transects," or mini-districts within the nine-block Warehouse District area.

    pjstar.com Home RSS 2009

  • In other words, as long as the intersection M where the arrow Gw–B transects the metacenter plane of the vessel is above G, the ship is stable and will right itself to its original position.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • In other words, as long as the intersection M where the arrow Gw–B transects the metacenter plane of the vessel is above G, the ship is stable and will right itself to its original position.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • In other words, as long as the intersection M where the arrow Gw–B transects the metacenter plane of the vessel is above G, the ship is stable and will right itself to its original position.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • In other words, as long as the intersection M where the arrow Gw–B transects the metacenter plane of the vessel is above G, the ship is stable and will right itself to its original position.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • An elongated pool bounds this form and transects the building through the entrance hall, forming a shallow pool in the entrance courtyard.

    The Muston Street House by Fox Johnston Architects 2009

  • We pass a hole in the main road that transects the Horn of Panjwai.

    Afghanistan's three parallel wars Peter Beaumont in Talukan 2010

  • With few protected areas, the Transamazon Highway transects this ecoregion and has increased the level of urbanization, timber extraction, and gold mining.

    Tapajós-Xingu moist forests 2008

  • Slightly later in the 19th century Wilmot Brown Jr. further recorded transects on the eastern and southern slopes of Volcan Baru.

    Talamancan montane forests 2010

  • In northern Eurasia including Russia, extensive measurements of gas emissions were initiated in the late 1980s, either as short-term measurements across geographic transects or as long time series of flux measurements at individual sites.

    Effects of climate change on landscape and regional processes and feedbacks to the climate system in the Arctic 2009

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