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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky