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Word: transitive (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Affected by transference of signification.
  • grammar: Of a verb, that takes an object or objects. (compare with: intransitive.)
  • Making a transit or passage.
  • settheory: Of a relation ''R'' on a set ''S'', such that if ''xRy'' and ''yRz'', then ''xRz'' for all members ''x'', ''y'' and ''z'' of ''S'' (that is, if the relation applies from one element to a second, and from the second to a third, then it also applies from the first element to the third).

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