Associations to the word «Transitivity»

Wiktionary

TRANSITIVITY, noun. (grammar) The degree in which any one verb can take/govern objects.
TRANSITIVITY, noun. (mathematics) The property of being transitive.

Dictionary definition

TRANSITIVITY, noun. (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.
TRANSITIVITY, noun. The grammatical relation created by a transitive verb.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King