Abbr. trans. or tr. or t.Grammar Expressing an action carried from the subject to the object; requiring a direct object to complete meaning. Used of a verb or verb construction.
Characterized by or involving transition.
Logic & Mathematics Of or relating to a relationship between three elements such that if the relationship holds between the first and second elements and between the second and third elements, it necessarily holds between the first and third elements. Examples of transitive relationships are equality for numbers and divisibility for integers.
n.
Grammar A transitive verb.
[Late Latin trānsitīvus, passing over (translation of Greek diabibastikos), from trānsitus, past participle of trānsīre, to go over; see transient.] tran'si·tive·ly adv., tran'si·tive·ness, tran'si·tiv'i·ty n.
(trān'sĭ-tĭv, -zĭ-) 