transitivity

1 (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

2 the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb [syn: transitiveness] [ant: intransitivity]

English

Noun

transitivity

1. The degree in which any one verb can take/govern objects.

• There are 3 degrees of transitivity of any one verb: intransitive, monotransitive and ditransitive.

The term transitivity may refer to:

In grammar

• Transitivity (grammatical category)
• transitive verb, when a verb takes an object

In logic and mathematics

• Transitive relation, a binary relation
• Intransitivity
• Transitive group action
• Ergodic theory, a group action that is metrically transitive
• Transitive set

Other

• Transitive Corporation, a computer software firm based in Manchester, England and Los Gatos, California