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Abbreviation of table row.

Making a transit or passage.

Affected by transference of signification.

(grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects.

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

(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.

Example: "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.

A person who translates text, film or other material into a different natural language.

(by extension) One that makes a new version of a source material in a different language or format.

A language interpreter.

A computer program that translates something from one language to another using machine translation.