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transitive.

Making a transit or passage.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈtɹænzɪtɪv/
  1. Making a transit or passage.

    not-comparable
  2. Affected by transference of signification.

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  3. Taking a direct object or objects.

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    The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
  4. 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.

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    "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.
  5. Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.

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  6. Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.

    not-comparable
  7. Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.

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Where this word comes from

From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).

noun/ˈtɹænzɪtɪv/
  1. 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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