transitive.
Making a transit or passage.
Meaning & usage
Making a transit or passage.
Affected by transference of signification.
Taking a direct object or objects.
The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c.
"Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.
Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.
Where this word comes from
From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).
A transitive verb.
Where this word comes from
From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).
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