transient
IPA: trˈænʒʌnt
noun
- Something that is transient.
- (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
- (acoustics) 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.
- (programming) A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.
- (Philippines) A homestay.
adjective
- Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
- Remaining for only a brief time.
- (physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a 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.
- (music) Intermediate.
- (philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
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Examples of "transient" in Sentences
- The rest is superficial and transient.
- The accommodation and transient part is mine.
- The changing of the angular velocity was transient.
- At the moment all the coverage is rather transient.
- The transient nature of bullet ballistic coefficients.
- Most of what you print is what we call transient print.
- The transients are not entirely uninteresting to the analyst.
- God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
- As to the matching, maybe its not important in the transient period.
- Lunar luminescence is one of the mechanisms of lunar transient phenomena.
- But in essence the poem conveys a sense of the transient nature of beauty.
- $transient the unique slug used while saving the transient with set_transient ().
- Getting a saved transient is just like getting an option: get_transient ($transient);
- We'd come in from the coolness of the outer system, chasing what they described as a transient event, a hole in space time.
- And it is possible one cause of seizure is stroke or even what we call a transient ischemic attack, a stroke that's in development, but then the body can clear a blood vessel blockage.
- Transumerism, coming from the term transient, it's more 'I don't want to be attached to the possession' more 'I'm attached to the experiences,'"said Alexandra Aguirre Rodriguez, assistant marketing professor at Florida International University.
- Transumerism, coming from the term transient, it's more 'I don't want to be attached to the possession' more 'I'm attached to the experiences, "' said Alexandra Aguirre Rodriguez, assistant marketing professor at Florida International University.
- The blood vessels of the heart, the neck, the brain, they're all very similar, so you build up plaques in different ways and it is possible, one cause of seizure is stroke or even what we call transient ischemic attack, a stroke that's in development but then the body can clear a blood vessel blockage.