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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Transitive \Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf F. transitif
See {Transient}.]
1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
--Bacon.
2. Effected 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. --Stewart.
3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action
which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which
requires an object to complete the sense as a transitive
verb for example, he holds the book. --
{Tran"si*tive*ly}, adv -- {Tran"si*tive*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
transitive
adj : (grammar) designating a verb that requires a direct object
to complete the meaning [ant: {intransitive}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
transitive
A relation R is transitive if x R y & y R z => x R z.
Equivalence relations, pre-, partial and total orders are all
transitive.
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