Transitivity

Transitivity

The term transitivity may refer to:

In grammar
* Transitivity (grammatical category)
* Transitive verb, when a verb takes an object
* Intransitive verb

In logic and mathematics
* Transitive relation, a binary relation
* 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


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