What is "transected"

Usage examples of "transected".

The town of Quorum was roughly twenty-five streets wide, transected by five big boulevards that ran east and west.

A dazzling beam of blue-white light no thicker than a flaxen thread sprang forth from the pro-trading nozzle, and Orogastus manipulated the device slowly so that the ray transected the royal limb, moving in a deep V-shape.

She had crossed and recrossed a creek that must have transected the entire installation, but that seemed to be the only moving thing on the entire reservation.

The place appeared to be utterly deserted though there was signs of recent footsteps on the snow-covered paths that transected the overgrown lawn of the quadrangle.

Quorum was roughly twenty-five streets wide, transected by five big boulevards that ran east and west.