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Transitivity

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Transitivity or transitive may refer to:

Grammar

  • Transitivity (grammar), a property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take direct objects
  • Transitive verb, a verb which takes an object
  • Transitive case, a grammatical case to mark arguments of a transitive verb

Logic and mathematics

  • Transitive group action
  • Transitive relation, a binary relation in which if A is related to B and B is related to C, then A is related to C
  • Syllogism, a related notion in propositional logic
  • Intransitivity, properties of binary relations in mathematics
  • Arc-transitive graph, a graph whose automorphism group acts transitively upon ordered pairs of adjacent vertices
  • Edge-transitive graph, a graph whose automorphism group acts transitively upon its edges
  • Vertex-transitive graph, a graph whose automorphism group acts transitively upon its vertices
  • Transitive set a set A such that whenever xA, and yx, then yA
  • Topological transitivity property of a continuous map for which every open subset U' of the phase space intersects every other open subset V, when going along trajectory

Other

  • Transitive Corporation, a computer software firm that developed QuickTransit cross-platform virtualization
  • Transitive dependency, a functional dependency of database management which holds by virtue of transitive relation

See also

  • Intransitive (disambiguation)
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