transitive

Meaning

Adjective

• Making a transit or passage.
• Affected by transference of signification.
• Taking a direct object or objects.
• Having the property that if an element x is related to y and y is related to z, then x is necessarily related to z.
• 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.

Origin

• From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns + itus, from eō.