transitive

  1. Adjective.  Making a transit or passage.
  2. Adjective.  Affected by transference of signification.
  3. Adjective.  (grammar) : Of a verb, that takes an object or objects. (compare with: intransitive.).
  4. Adjective.  (set theory) : 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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