plural of transition town

(mathematics, stochastic processes) A square matrix whose rows consist of nonnegative real numbers, with each row summing to 1. Used to describe the transitions of a Markov chain; its element in the ith row and jth column describes the probability of moving from state i to state j in one time step.

(of a verb in an Algonquian language) Belonging to the class of transitive verbs that take animate direct objects.

(graph theory, of a graph) Such that there exists a finite vertex set so that for any vertex there exists another vertex in that finite set and an injective homomorphism of the graph that maps the second vertex to the first vertex.

(graph theory, of a graph) Such that its vertex set can be partitioned into finitely many sets, so that there exists an automorphism mapping a vertex to another vertex if and only if the two vertices belong to the same set in that partition.

plural of transition point

(Australia, New Zealand) A freeway lane reserved for vehicles with a set minimum number of occupants.

plural of public transit

(US) Public transport.

A commuter rail system that combines aspects of an interurban railway with those of a subway, using a menagerie of pathways such as viaduct, tunnel, beam, cut and cover, trench, at grade, and others.