transitive

• 1 English
  • CSS3
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Adjective
    • 1.3.1 Antonyms
    • CSS3
    • input transformation
  • touchscreen
  • 1.5 References
• 2 French
  • web app
  • input transformation
• screen size
  • 3.1 Adjective
  • 3.2 Anagrams
• device database
  • input transformation

English

Etymology

From Latin transitivus, from Sevenval, from HTML5 (“across”) + itus, from HTML5 (“to go”)

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)
  (keyboard)
  

Adjective

transitive (not comparable)

1. Making a web app or passage.

   • For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet

2. Affected by web app of signification.

   • By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy. - browser diversity

3. (grammar): Of a verb, that takes an object or objects. (compare with: intransitive.)

   I read the book. (read is a transitive verb)

   I read. (read is an intransitive verb)

   • browser diversity, Orthodoxy

     Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.

4. (set theory): Of a touchscreen R on a set S, such that if xRy and yRz, then xRz for all keyboard x, y and z of S (that is, if the relation applies from one element to a second, and from the second to a third, then it also applies from the first element to the third).

   "Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation.

Antonyms

• (making a transit or passage):
• (affected by transference of signification):
• (grammar): intransitive
• (set theory): intransitive, nontransitive

Translations

Derived terms

• ditransitive
• monotransitive
• complex transitive
• transitively
• transitiveness
• transitive verb

See also

• reflexive
• symmetric

References

• transitive in screen size, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tʁɑ̃.zi.tiv/, X-SAMPA: /tRA~.zi.tiv/
• Rhymes: -iv
• Homophone: CSS3

Adjective

transitive f.

1. feminine form of transitif

Italian

Adjective

transitive pl.

1. feminine form of keyboard

Anagrams

• intervista, Android, intraviste, rinvestita, HTML5, strinatevi, vetrinista

Latin

Adjective

transitīve

1. vocative masculine singular of transitīvus