transitiveadj/ˈtɹænzɪtɪv/

• 1

  Making a transit or passage.

  • 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.
• 2

  Affected by transference of signification.

  • 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.
• 3

  grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsTaking a direct object or objects.

  • 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.
• 4

  mathematicssciencesset-theoryHaving the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c.

  • "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.
• 5

  algebramathematicssciencesSuch that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.

• 6

  graph-theorymathematicssciencesSuch that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.

• 7

  mathematicsprobabilitysciencesOf a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.

transitivenoun/ˈtɹænzɪtɪv/

• 1

  grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA transitive verb.

  • This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).