transitive
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
transitive (not comparable)
- Making a transit or passage.
- Affected by transference of signification.
- (grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects.
- Antonyms: intransitive
- The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
- (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x is related to y and y is related to z, then x is necessarily related to z.
- Antonyms: intransitive, nontransitive
- "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.
- (algebra, of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
- (graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
- Portuguese: transitivo, transitório
- Russian: перехо́дный
- Spanish: transitivo
- French: transitif
- German: transitiv
- Italian: transitivo
- Portuguese: transitivo
- Russian: перехо́дный
- Spanish: transitivo
- French: transitif
- German: transitiv
- Portuguese: transitivo
- Russian: перехо́дный
- Spanish: transitivo
- Portuguese: transitivo
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