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transitive
Logic Maths having the property that if one object bears a relationship to a second object that also bears the same relationship to a third object, then the first object bears this relationship to the third object

transitive - A relation R is transitive if x R y & y R z => x R z. Equivalence relations, pre-, partial and total orders are all transitive.


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This is called the transitivity relationship" (Collerson, 1994, 19).
We could think of this as a kind of transitivity of affection for religious belief, in a way similar to what Cardinal Newman saw when he said "cor ad cor loquitur.
As the limit [phi] = 1 is approached, the contiguity of the assemblage of components becomes an important issue since the integrity of an elastic medium is dependent on the transitivity of forces between adjacent material components.
 
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