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Maybe you can see what would have gone wrong with this scheme: imagine that we also wanted these simple implicit conversions to be transitive, and all the sudden there would have been implicit conversions from any type to any other type, "through" dynamic.

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  1. adjective Grammar Expressing an action carried from the subject to the object; requiring a direct object to complete meaning. Used of a verb or verb construction.
  2. adjective Characterized by or involving transition.
  3. adjective Logic & Mathematics Of or relating to a relationship between three elements such that if the relationship holds between the first and second elements and between the second and third elements, it necessarily holds between the first and third elements. Examples of transitive relationships are equality for numbers and divisibility for integers.
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  • Verbs are intransitive, transitive, and causative; there are also active and passive forms. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Grammatically speaking, "tweet" is an intransitive verb, whereas "twitter" can act as a transitive or intransitive verb. —  Inc.com
  • In contrast to the case of complete data where the dominance relation is transitive, incomplete data suffer from non-transitive dominance relation which may lead to a cyclic dominance behavior. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It is passing or transitive, and ends all the angles formed by walking. —  Delsarte System of Oratory
  • They were standing at the water's edge A few verbs in our language are always transitive, and a few others are always intransitive. —  Composition-Rhetoric
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  1. Late Latin trānsitīvus, passing over (translation of Greek diabibastikos), from trānsitus, past participle of trānsīre, to go over; see transient.

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  1. from French transitif =Provencal transitiu =Spanish Portuguese Italian transitivo =D. transitief =G. Swedish Danish transitiv, from Late Latin transitivus, transitive, passing over (applied to verbs), from Latin transire, pass or go over: see transit.
 

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