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adjective
- Making a transit or passage.
- Quotations
- For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. " w:Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet
- Affected by transference of signification.
- Quotations
- 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. - w:John Stuart Mill, John Stuart Mill
- (grammar): Of a verb, that takes an object or objects. (compare with: intransitive.)
- In "I read the book", "read" is a transitive verb.
- Quotations
- Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb. " w:G. K. Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
- (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).
- "Is an ancestor of" is a relation.
Translations: - Dutch: transitief, transitieve, overgankelijk, overgankelijke
- French: transitif , transitive
(trans-mid)
(trans-bottom)
- Italian: transitivo , transitiva
(trans-mid)
- German: transitiv
Etymology: Latin trans across + itus, from eo, to go
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