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Transitive

Adjective

Definitions

1.AdjectiveMaking a transit or passage.
2.AdjectiveAffected by transference of signification.
3.AdjectiveTaking a direct object or objects.
"The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem"."
4.AdjectiveHaving 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.AdjectiveSuch that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
6.AdjectiveSuch that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
7.AdjectiveOf a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.
8.NounA transitive verb.
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