'transects' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb which means to survey or measure a line across an area, usually in order to observe & record the characteristics of the area. For example, "The researchers conducted transects to map out the habitats of the local wildlife."
Attempts to define the open-water boundary between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans often rely on arbitrary latitude coordinates or linear transects; the two most common latitudinal boundaries are 65° N and the Arctic Circle (66°30′ N).
Many different kinds of measurements were made as part of WOCE, but the central field program around which they were organized was a series of hydrographic transects by ship that traversed the major ocean basins.
The protagonist of Irving's fourteenth and latest novel, "Avenue of Mysteries," a non-wrestling, pro-everything Mexican-American novelist named Juan Diego Guerrero, transects the club's gravitational field only briefly.
I will be collecting data on local quail distribution and conducting vegetation transects to identify microhabitat variation.
While we are conducting impromptu vegetation transects where we spot the quail, local ranchers driving by stop to ask us what we are doing thrashing around in the bushes with a tape measure and a GPS unit.
I will spend the following day conducting vegetation transects to quantify habitat differences and begin roadside surveys of the places where Gambel's and elegant quail mix.
A water-starved bantustan of a neighbour will fail to develop a viable economy, and will hence remain corrupt, donor-dependent and undemocratic; Israeli religious settlements transecting its territory will provide a focus of nationalist bitterness, fostering terrorism.
Rosetta's stone A glide-path to knowledge Stress test ReprintsIn March the programme's researchers laid dozens of devices along a transect running 400km north from the ice's edge.
They did so by towing a submersible called SeaBED, which belongs to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in Massachusetts, along a 30-nautical-mile transect of Marguerite Bay, off the west coast of the Antarctic peninsula.In this section Therapist-free therapy Who are you calling bird-brained?
Continuous lithosequences have parent materials whose properties vary gradually along a transect, the prototypical example being soils formed on loess deposits at increasing distances downwind from their alluvial source.
On a global scale, the integrated effects of climate can readily be seen along a transect from pole to Equator.
