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Definition of transitive

Transitive
Transitive Tran"si*tive, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif. See Transient.] 1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.] --Bacon. 2. Effected by transference of signification. By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy. --Stewart. 3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book. -- Tran"si*tive*ly, adv. -- Tran"si*tive*ness, n.

Meaning of transitive from wikipedia

- Look up transitivity or transitive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Transitivity or transitive may refer to: Transitivity (grammar), a property regarding...
- In mathematics, a binary relation R on a set X is transitive if, for all elements a, b, c in X, whenever R relates a to b and b to c, then R also relates...
- mathematics, the transitive closure R+ of a homogeneous binary relation R on a set X is the smallest relation on X that contains R and is transitive. For finite...
- called transitive if for any two points x, y ∈ X there exists a g ∈ G so that g ⋅ x = y. The action is simply transitive (or sharply transitive, or regular)...
- A transitive verb is a verb that entails one or more transitive objects, for example, 'enjoys' in Amadeus enjoys music. This contrasts with intransitive...
- and transitive means that the model is a transitive set or class. An inner model is a transitive model containing all ordinals. A countable transitive model...
- In the mathematical field of graph theory, a transitive reduction of a directed graph D is another directed graph with the same vertices and as few edges...
- transitive dependency is an indirect dependency relationship between software components. This kind of dependency is held by virtue of a transitive relation...
- the mathematical field of graph theory, a graph G is symmetric (or arc-transitive) if, given any two pairs of adjacent vertices u1—v1 and u2—v2 of G, there...
- In linguistic typology, transitive alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment used in a small number of languages in which a single grammatical case...