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transecting

transecting is the present participle and gerund of transect.

Meaning of transect

Verb

transect (third-person singular simple present transects, present participle transecting, simple past and past participle transected)

  1. (transitive) To divide something by cutting transversely.

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Questions about transecting

What is transecting the present participle and gerund of?
Transecting is the present participle and gerund of transect.

Words near transecting in the dictionary

  1. transearthed
  2. transearthing
  3. transearths
  4. transect
  5. transected
  6. transecting
  7. transection
  8. transectional
  9. transectioned
  10. transections
  11. transects

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Adapted from Wiktionary: transecting (page history and authors); transect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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