transitive
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(not comparable)Making a transit or passage.
- 2.
(not comparable)Affected by transference of signification.
- 3.
(not comparable)(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".
- 4.
(not comparable)(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.
"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.
- 5.
(not comparable)(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.
- 6.
(not comparable)(graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
- 7.
(not comparable)(probability) Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(grammar) A transitive verb.
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From la trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (across) + itus, from eō (to go).