Transitivity

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 argument of a transitive verb

Logic and mathematics

• 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
• 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 x ∈ A, and y ∈ x, then y ∈ A
• 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

• Intransitivity, properties of binary relations in mathematics
• Intransitive verb, a verb that has no direct object