transitive dependency (English, noun)
expansion: transitive dependency (plural transitive dependencies)
Senses:
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glosses: An attribute of a relation that depends on a key but also on a third attribute which is not a key; this is a violation of third normal form.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
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glosses: In a computer program, library called by another dependency.
Forms:
form: transitive dependencies
tags: plural