quasi-transitive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   approximately transitive; allowing a weaker or graded relation between the first and third terms when successive pairs are related

   Russell calls similarity quasi-transitive because two objects each resembling a third need not resemble one another equally closely.

2. 2
   adj

   describing a graph on which the automorphism group has only finitely many vertex orbits

   The infinite graph is quasi-transitive even though no automorphism sends every vertex to every other vertex.

Formed from quasi- ("as if; almost"), from Latin quasi, + transitive. In mathematics and logic, the prefix marks a relation or structure that retains a weakened form of transitivity rather than satisfying the ordinary property exactly.

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