transitional vs transitive

transitional

• of, or relating to a transition 

• temporary; pending the implementation of something new 

transitive

• 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. 

• A transitive verb.