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adj. Passing with time; transitory: "the transient beauty of youth” ( Lydia M. Child).

adj. Remaining in a place only a brief time: transient laborers.

adj. Physics Decaying with time, especially as a simple exponential function of time.

n. One that is transient, especially a hotel guest or boarder who stays for only a brief time.

n. Physics A transient phenomenon or property, especially a transient electric current.

adj. Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

adj. Remaining for only a brief time.

adj. Decaying with time, especially exponentially.

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

adj. Occasional; isolated; one-off; individual.

adj. Passing through; passing from one person to another.

adj. Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.

n. Something which is transient.

n. A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.

n. A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.

n. A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker

n. An unhoused person

adj. Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory.

adj. Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief.

adj. Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent.

n. That which remains but for a brief time.

Passing across, as from one thing or person to another; communicated.

Passing with time; of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; temporary; as, a transient impression.

Hasty; momentary; passing: as, a transient glance of a landscape.

In music, intermediate—that is, serving as a connective, but unessential in itself: as, a transient chord, modulation, or note. Compare passing-note.

SynonymsTransient, Transitory, Fleeting. Strictly, transient marks the fact that a thing soon passes or will soon pass away: as, a transient impression; a transient shadow. Transitory indicates that lack of permanence is in the nature of the thing; as, transitory pleasure; this transitory life. Fleeting is by figure a stronger word than transient, though in the same line of meaning. See list under transitory.

n. One who or that which is temporary, passing, or not permanent.

n. Specifically A transient gruest.

adj. of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind

adj. lasting a very short time

n. (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load

n. one who stays for only a short time

"Getting a saved transient is just like getting an option: get_transient ($transient);"

impermanent    temporary   

recurrent   

vibration    oscillation    traveler    traveller   

passing    cursory    transient chord    transient action    transient matter    transient act    transient cause    transient effect   

transiently    transience    transientness   

transitory    fleeting    passing    brief    hasty    momentary    imperfect    ephemeron   

fleeting    momentary    temporary    earthly    ephemeral    superficial    accidental    uncertain    short-lived    intermittent