transitive

1. (grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects.Examples: "The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem"."; "Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb."Antonyms: intransitivenot-comparable

2. (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.Examples: ""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."Antonyms: intransitive, nontransitivenot-comparable

3. (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.not-comparable

4. (graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.not-comparable

5. (probability) Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.not-comparable