transitive
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sɪ adjective
1.
2.
characterized by or involving transition; transitional; intermediate.
3.
passing over to or affecting something else; transeunt.
4.
Mathematics. noting a relation in which one element in relation to a second element and the second in relation to a third element implies the first element is in relation to the third element, as the relation “less than or equal to.”
noun
5.
Grammar, transitive verb.
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Origin:
1550–60; < Late Latin trānsitīvus, equivalent to Latin trānsit(us) (see transition) + -īvus -ive
1550–60; < Late Latin trānsitīvus, equivalent to Latin trānsit(us) (see transition) + -īvus -ive
Related forms
tran·si·tive·ly, adverb
tran·si·tive·ness, tran·si·tiv·i·ty, noun
non·tran·si·tive, adjective, noun
non·tran·si·tive·ly, adverb
non·tran·si·tive·ness, noun
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| —adj | |
| 1. | grammar |
| a. denoting an occurrence of a verb when it requires a direct object or denoting a verb that customarily requires a direct object: ``to find'' is a transitive verb | |
| b. (as noun): these verbs are transitives | |
| 2. | grammar denoting an adjective, such as fond, or a noun, such as husband, that requires a noun phrase and cannot be used without some implicit or explicit reference to such a noun phrase |
| 3. | logic, maths having the property that if one object bears a relationship to a second object that also bears the same relationship to a third object, then the first object bears this relationship to the third object: mathematical equality is transitive, since if x = y and y = z then x = z |
| [C16: from Late Latin transitīvus from Latin transitus a going over; see | |
| 'transitively | |
| —adv | |
| transi'tivity | |
| —n | |
| 'transitiveness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
transitive
"taking a direct object" (of verbs), 1571 (implied in transitively), from L.L. transitivus (Priscian) "transitive," lit. "that may pass over (to another person)," from transire "go or cross over" (see transient).
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Science Dictionary
| transitive (trān'sĭ-tĭv) Pronunciation Key
Of or relating to a mathematical or logical relation between three elements such that if the relation holds between the first and second elements and between the second and third elements, it necessarily holds between the first and third elements. The relation of being greater than in mathematics is transitive, since if a > b and b > c, then a > c. |
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Computing Dictionary
transitive definition
A relation R is transitive if x R y & y R z => x R z. Equivalence relations, pre-, partial and total orders are all transitive.
Example sentences
By the transitive property, that makes me pretty great, without ever having accomplished anything.
Of or relating to the grammatical case of the subject of a transitive verb in such a language.
Trust is important this campaign season, and trust is transitive.
There is, however a new logic of relations which fail to be reflexive, symmetric and transitive.
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