transitive

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
transitive /ˈtransɪtɪv, ˈtrɑːns-, -nz-/

▶adjective

• 1 Grammar (of a verb or a sense or use of a verb) able to take a direct object (expressed or implied), e.g. saw in he saw the donkey. The opposite of intransitive.

• 2 Logic & Mathematics (of a relation) such that, if it applies between successive members of a sequence, it must also apply between any two members taken in order.

– derivatives
transitively adverb,
transitiveness noun,
transitivity noun.

– origin C16 (in the sense ‘transitory’): from late L. transitivus, from transit- (see transit).