Usually means: Path sampling across a gradient.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word transect:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. transect: Merriam-Webster
  2. transect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. transect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. transect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. transect: Vocabulary.com
  6. transect: Wordnik
  7. transect: Wiktionary
  8. transect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. transect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. transect: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. transect: Dictionary.com
  12. transect (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Transect (urban), Transect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. transect: FreeDictionary.org
  15. transect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. transect: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transect: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. transect: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. transect: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)

(Note: See transected as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (transect)

verb:  (transitive) To divide something by cutting transversely.
noun:  A path along which a researcher moves to count and record observations or collect data.

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