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transitivity

noun
/ˌtɹænzɪˈtɪvɪti/

Etymology

From French transitivité. Morphologically transitive + -ity.

  1. derived from transitivité

Definitions

  1. The degree in which any one verb can take or govern objects.

    • There are 3 cardinal degrees of transitivity of any one verb: intransitive, monotransitive and ditransitive.

  2. The property of being transitive.

    • The hypothetical syllogism inference rule states the transitivity of implication.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for transitivity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA