plural of transitive verb

(grammar): A verb that is accompanied (either clearly or implicitly) by a direct object in the active voice. It links the action taken by the subject with the object upon which that action is taken. Consequently, transitive verbs can also be used in the passive voice when the direct object of the equivalent active-voice sentence becomes the subject.

(databases) An attribute of a relation that depends on a key but also on a third attribute which is not a key; this is a violation of third normal form.

(grammar, of a verb) Taking an indirect object.

(linguistics) Synonym of ditransitive

(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.

(set theory) Any set X such that for any x ∈ X, if y ∈ x then y ∈ X; equivalently, such that if x ∈ X and x is not an urelement then x ⊆ X.

plural of transitive set

(set theory, order theory, of a binary relation R on a set X) The smallest binary relation on X that includes R and is transitive. / (set theory, of a set X) The smallest transitive set that contains X.