Transitivity or transitive may refer to:
Grammar
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Transitivity (grammar), a property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take direct objects
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Transitive verb, a verb which takes an object
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Transitive case In linguistic typology, transitive alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment used in a small number of languages in which a single grammatical case is used to mark both arguments of a transitive verb, but not with the single argument of an i ...
, a grammatical case to mark arguments of a transitive verb
Logic and mathematics
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Transitive group action
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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''
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Syllogism
A syllogism ( grc-gre, συλλογισμός, ''syllogismos'', 'conclusion, inference') is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true.
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, a related notion in propositional logic
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Intransitivity, properties of binary relations in mathematics
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Arc-transitive graph, a graph whose automorphism group acts transitively upon ordered pairs of adjacent vertices
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Edge-transitive graph, a graph whose automorphism group acts transitively upon its edges
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Vertex-transitive graph
In the mathematical field of graph theory, a vertex-transitive graph is a graph in which, given any two vertices and of , there is some automorphism
:f : G \to G\
such that
:f(v_1) = v_2.\
In other words, a graph is vertex-transitive i ...
, a graph whose automorphism group acts transitively upon its vertices
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Transitive set a set ''A'' such that whenever ''x'' ∈ ''A'', and ''y'' ∈ ''x'', then ''y'' ∈ ''A''
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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
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Transitive Corporation
QuickTransit was a cross-platform virtualization program developed by Transitive Corporation. It allowed software compiled for one specific processor and operating system combination to be executed on a different processor and/or operating syste ...
, a computer software firm that developed QuickTransit cross-platform virtualization
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Transitive dependency A transitive dependency is a functional dependency which holds by virtue of transitivity among various software components.
Computer programs
In a computer program a direct dependency is functionality exported by a library, or API, or any software ...
, a functional dependency of database management which holds by virtue of transitive relation
See also
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Intransitive (disambiguation) Intransitive can mean:
* the opposite of ''transitive'', see Transitivity (disambiguation)
* Intransitivity, a mathematical property of binary relations
* Intransitive verb, a verb that does not allow an object
* Intransitive case, the grammatic ...
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