transitive
Meaning of transitive
adjective
- Making a transit or passage.
- Affected by transference of signification.
- (grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects.
The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
- (of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x is related to y and y is related to z, then x is necessarily related to z.
"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.
- (of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
- (of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
Information about transitive
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of transitive
tran-si-tive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- transitive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
transitive antonyms
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Translation of transitive
- German: transitiv
- French: transitif
- Spanish: transitivo
- Italian: transitivo
Anagrams of transitive
Words that rhyme with transitive
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