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transient
/ˈtɹæn.ʃənt/
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What does transient mean?
adjective
- Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
- Remaining for only a brief time.
- Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
More meanings (13)
adjective
- unsteady, [[nonsteady|non-]-steady-state]].
- having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
- Occasional; isolated; one-off
- Passing through; passing from one person to another.
- Intermediate.
- Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
noun
- Something that is transient.
- A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
- A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
- A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.
- A homeless person.
- A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.
- A homestay.
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IPA pronunciation
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It indicates better than any water hereabouts the absolute progress of the season, being least affected by transient changes of temperature.
I was, however, obliged by circumstances to proceed on my journey, without leisure to take more than a transient view of Coningsburgh.
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His transient masters since he had come into the Northland had bred in him a fear that no master could be permanent.
One spring set a thousand others in motion for the annihilation of living beings, transient or permanent, of mediate or immediate effect.
From the fundamental belief transient accessory ideas may arise, but they always bear the impress of the belief from which they have sprung.