transitive

About 1.41 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Making a transit or passage.
2. adjective Affected by transference of signification.
3. adjective Taking a direct object or objects.

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

4. adjective 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.

5. adjective Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
6. adjective Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
7. adjective Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.
8. noun A transitive verb.

Similar words

transportable conveyable transmissible movable mobile transferable passable operative portable relational

Often followed by

verb verbs and closure or relation clause clauses inference

Word family

transitively transitiveness transitivenesses transitivities transitivity