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Thursday, October 30, 2008

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I have to say this is the best online dictionary I have discovered, it has multiple definitions, especially math, it was especially helpful in understanding Economic terms that I couldn't find elsewhere, click HERE to go there. I love it.

Here's excerpt of an example of one of the definitions I looked up, for the complete rundown here's the LINK

transitive
6 dictionary results for: transitive
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tran⋅si⋅tive

[tran-si-tiv, -zi-] Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
2. characterized by or involving transition; transitional; intermediate.
3. passing over to or affecting something else; transeunt.
4. Mathematics. noting a relation in which one element in relation to a second element and the second in relation to a third element implies the first element is in relation to the third element, as the relation “less than or equal to.”
–noun
5. Grammar. transitive verb.

Origin:
1550–60; < class="ital-inline">trānsitīvus, equiv. to L trānsit(us) (see transition ) + -īvus -ive


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