transitive

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Making a transit or passage.

   • For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
2. 2

   Affected 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.
3. 3

   Taking a direct object or objects.

   • The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
   • Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
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   1. 4

      Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is…

      Having 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.
   2. 5

      Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first…

      Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.

   3. 6

      Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.

   4. 7

      Of a set of dice

      Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.

   5. 8

      A transitive verb.

      • This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).

The neighborhood

• neighborreflexive
• neighborsymmetric