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transitivity::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | transitiveness |
| Type of | grammatical relation |
| Derivation | transitive |
transitivity::noun | Spocien Dictionary
(logic and mathematics) a relation between three elements such that if it holds between the first and second and it also holds between the second and third it must necessarily hold between the first and third
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | mathematical relation, logical relation |
Examples of transitivity
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Allshire and colleagues demonstrate that transitivity occurs in fission yeast.
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Both classes of verb are related to the concept of the transitivity of a verb.
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In contrast to valency, the transitivity of a verb only considers the objects.
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Node B exhibits high transitivity with many friends that know one another.
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A ring species is a species that exhibits a counterexample to transitivity.
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However, reflexivity does not follow from symmetry and transitivity alone.
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Formal transitivity is associated with a variety of semantic functions across languages.
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In some languages, the definiteness of the object affects the transitivity of the verb.
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The grammatical role of the object remains unaltered, and thus transitivity may also be used.
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- (logic and mathematics) a relation between three elements such that if it holds between the first and second and it also holds between the second and third it must necessarily hold between the first and third
- The grammatical relation created by a transitive verb
- (transitive) designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning
- In linguistics, transitivity is a property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take direct objects. It is closely related to valency.
- In mathematics, a binary relation R over a set X is transitive if whenever an element a is related to an element b, and b is in turn related to an element c, then a is also related to c. Transitivity is a key property of both partial order relations and equivalence relations.
- (Transitive (group action)) In algebra and geometry, a group action is a way of describing symmetries of objects using groups. ...
- (Transitive) A relationship between actors where all are connected independently.
- (Transitive) A relationship which, for any relation R, if xRy and yRz, then xRz. For example, if a canary is a bird and a bird is an animal, then a canary is an animal.
- (Transitive) A word is traditionally said to be transitive (in a given use) if it assigns accusative case to a noun or pronoun expression which it c-commands. So, likes in 'John likes him' is a transitive verb, since it assigns accusative case to its complement him. ...
