English Explanatory Dictionary

transitive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Making a transit or passage.
Affected by transference of signification.
Taking a direct object or objects.
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.
Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.

noun

A transitive verb.

Pronunciation

trăn'zĭtĭv /ˈtɹænzɪtɪv/ en-us-transitive.ogg

Word forms

transitive transitives

Etymology

From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).

Antonyms

intransitive nontransitive

Related words

reflexive symmetric

Derived words

ambitransitive bitransitive complex transitive ditransitive doubly transitive indirect transitive monotransitive quasi-transitive semi-transitive transitive animate transitive closure transitive dependency transitively transitiveness transitive set transitive verb transitivity unitransitive

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