Transitive

adjective

1. Making a transit or passage.
2. Affected by transference of signification.
3. (grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects.

   "The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem"."

4. (of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x is related to y and y is related to z, then x is necessarily related to z.

   ""Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol."

5. (of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.