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Table of contents
1 Etymology
2 Adjective

2.1 Antonyms
2.2 Translations
2.3 Derived terms

Etymology

Latin trans (across) + itus from eo (to go) Duncan

Adjective

transitive (no comparative or superlative forms)

  1. Making a transit or passage.
    Quotations
    • 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. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet
  2. Affected by transference of signification.
    Quotations
    • 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. (Grammar): (of a verb) one which takes objects.
    Quotations
    • Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb. - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
  4. (Logic and Mathematics): (of a relation), one where the linkage of one element separately with two others will imply a corresponding linkage between those two others.

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