Did you perchance mean intransitive?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Not transitive.
Etymologies
- non- + transitive (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Janken, as the first known true RPS game, was roused into existence by application of the Guu Choki Paa or Sansukumi way of thinking, which can be defined as a nontransitive tripartite system, or, in laymen’s terms, a three-way impasse.”
Simon & Schuster: THE OFFICIAL ROCK PAPER SCISSORS STRATEGY GUIDE
“In practice you'll find that people have these nontransitive beliefs all the time, and it's going to prevent this from working well. czarandy”
“PRESENT TENSE (nontransitive): lie, (transitive—requires an object): lay.”
“PAST PARTICIPLE (nontransitive): lain, (transitive): laid.”
“PAST TENSE (nontransitive): lay, (transitive): laid.”
“In practice you'll find that people have these nontransitive beliefs all the time, and it's going to prevent this from working well.”
“I thought that if you liked the nontransitive dice, you might also like a nontransitive coin-tossing problem called "Penny-ante".”
“Poundstone mentions in passing that Buffett and Thorpe discussed their shared interest in nontransitive dice.”
“Curious, I googled "nontransitive dice" and found a nice description of them by Ivars Peterson at the Mathematical Association of America's website.”
“They were nontransitive dice a sort of party trick for statistics geeks.”
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