| 释义 |
transiˈtivity
[f. late L. transitīv-us transitive + -ity.]
= transitiveness: see transitive 2, 6 and 7.
1891Cent. Dict., Transitivity, the character of being transitive, as a group. 1897Monist Jan. 211 Not only is the relative of correspondence transitive, but it also possesses what may be called antithetic transitivity. 1928Mod. Lang. Rev. Apr. 144 The following chapters [of Jespersen's Modern English Grammar] are concerned with..transitivity and predicatives. 1942J. C. Cooley Primer Formal Logic viii. 339 The generalized postulate for the transitivity of the relation, older than, could not be expressed without variables. 1969J. C. Wells E.U.P. Concise Esperanto & Eng. Dict. 17 Many English verbs are of varying transitivity, since they can be used either transitively or intransitively. 1980A. J. Jones Game Theory iv. 194 To prove the theorem it is only necessary to verify the three defining properties of an equivalence relation... Reflexivity... Symmetry... Transitivity. |