evanescent vs transitive

evanescent

adj
  • Disappearing, vanishing. 

  • Of an oscillating electric or magnetic field: not propagating as an electromagnetic wave but having its energy spatially concentrated in the vicinity of its source. 

  • Of a number or value: diminishing to the point of reaching zero as a limit; infinitesimal. 

  • Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary. 

  • Of plant parts: shed after a period. 

  • Barely there; almost imperceptible. 

transitive

adj
  • Affected by transference of signification. 

  • Taking a direct object or objects. 

  • Making a transit or passage. 

  • Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c. 

  • Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. 

  • Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. 

noun
  • A transitive verb. 

How often have the words evanescent and transitive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )