transient

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UK /ˈtɹan.zi.ənt/ US /ˈtɹæn.ʃənt/

adj 5noun 5

Collocations

ADJ.

bad, difficult, ephemeral, logical, needed, sorrowful

VERB + TRANSIENT

essentialize, love, tend, worship

TRANSIENT + NOUN

area, attitudes, beloveds, lta, pleasure, spenser, thing, world

PREP.

in, in

Definitions

adj

Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

a transient pleasure

this transient world

Remaining for only a brief time.

a transient view of a landscape

a transient disease

Decaying with time, especially exponentially.

having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.

Occasional; isolated; one-off

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.

Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.

A homeless person.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — of a mental act

transeunt

adjective — lasting a very short time

ephemeral
passing
short-lived
transitory
fugacious

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

a transient pleasure

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this transient world

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Or doth she only seem to take ⁠The touch of change in calm or storm; ⁠But knows no more of transient form In her deep self, than some dead lake That holds the shadow of a lark ⁠Hung in the shadow of a

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Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.

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The overhead in loading transients is a big time-waster.

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These areas function to single thread supervisor routines that are loaded as needed. The Logical Transient Area (LTA) processes $$B transients.

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