transitive property

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• transitive law — Property of relationship that states that if A is in a given relation to B and B is in the same relation to C, then A is also in that relation to C. Equality, for example, is a transitive relation. * * * ▪ logic and mathematics       in… …   Universalium

• transitive — [tran′sə tiv, tran′zətiv] adj. [LL transitivus < L transitus: see TRANSIT] 1. Rare of, showing, or characterized by transition; transitional 2. Gram. expressing an action thought of as passing over to and having an effect on some person or… …   English World dictionary

• Transitive relation — In mathematics, a binary relation R over a set X is transitive if whenever an element a is related to an element b , and b is in turn related to an element c , then a is also related to c . Transitivity is a key property of both partial order… …   Wikipedia

• Transitive closure — In mathematics, the transitive closure of a binary relation R on a set X is the smallest transitive relation on X that contains R .For example, if X is a set of airports and xRy means there is a direct flight from airport x to airport y , then… …   Wikipedia

• transitive — adjective Etymology: Late Latin transitivus, from Latin transitus, past participle of transire Date: 1590 1. characterized by having or containing a direct object < a transitive verb > < a transitive construction > 2. being or relating to a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Large cardinal property — In the mathematical field of set theory, a large cardinal property is a certain kind of property of transfinite cardinal numbers. Cardinals with such properties are, as the name suggests, generally very large (for example, bigger than aleph zero …   Wikipedia

• Equality (mathematics) — Loosely, equality is the state of being quantitatively the same. More formally, equality (or the identity relation) is the binary relation on a set X defined by . The identity relation is the archetype of the more general concept of an… …   Wikipedia

• rent — Regular payments to an owner for the use of some leased property. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * ▪ I. rent rent 2 noun PROPERTY 1. [countable, uncountable] money paid for the use of a house, office etc: • Commercial rents have decreased… …   Financial and business terms

• develop — de‧vel‧op [dɪˈveləp] verb 1. [intransitive, transitive] to grow or gradually change into a larger, stronger, or more advanced state: • Once a stock market develops in the Czech Republic, the bank s customers will be offered investment accounts.… …   Financial and business terms

• rented — rent rent 1 [rent] verb 1. [intransitive, transitive] PROPERTY to pay a regular amount of money for the use of something such as a house or office: • The company had been renting for seven years before buying a 13,000 square foot headquarters. •… …   Financial and business terms

• Outline of discrete mathematics — The following outline is presented as an overview of and topical guide to discrete mathematics: Discrete mathematics – study of mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete rather than continuous. In contrast to real numbers that have… …   Wikipedia