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nounnontransitivity (uncountable)
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe property of a binary relation that is not transitive; that is, there exist x, y, and z such that Rxy and Ryz hold but Rxz does not hold.
The relation is called nontransitive if it is not transitive, i.e., if there exist x, y, z with xRy, yRz, and not xRz.
1998, Hans Hermes, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Springer, page 142Synonyms: intransitivity
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nounThe property of a binary relation that is not transitive; that is, there exist x, y, and z such that Rxy and Ryz hold but Rxz does not hold.
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