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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin