Definition of "transect" [transect]

• To divide by cutting transversely. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "(The transect is a tool New Urbanists use to analyze land use by dividing types of use from the rural to the urban into six zones.)"
• "A transect is a path used by researchers to survey a geographic area."
• "PRA techniques, such as transect walks and mapping are used to bring villagers 'attention to routes of disease spread from faeces"