Transitive

Quick meaning: Transitive is an adjective meaning Making a transit or passage.

Meaning

Making a transit or passage.

More Meanings

1. Affected by transference of signification.
2. (grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects.
3. (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.
4. (graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
5. (probability) Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.
6. (grammar) A transitive verb.
7. (set theory, of a relation on a set) 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.

Example Sentences

Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.

The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".

"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.

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.

Word Forms

• transitives

Antonyms for transitive

Common opposites include intransitive, nontransitive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transportable, conveyable, transmissible, movable, mobile, transferable.

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