transient
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Late Latin transiēnt- (for classical transeunt-), stem of transiēns, present participle of trānsīre (“to go over, to pass”).
Inflected forms:
form: more transient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most transient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: transients
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
pos: adj
examples: a transient pleasure
this transient world
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 heaven?
gloss: Remaining for only a brief time.
pos: adj
examples: a transient view of a landscape
a transient disease
Taking advantage of the surprise, which assured him at least transient attention, he continued, addressing himself particularly to Evelyn.
Traditionally, alumnae have more impact than students, whom the administration views as transient.
gloss: Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
pos: adj
gloss: unsteady, [[nonsteady|non-]-steady-state]].
pos: adj
gloss: having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
pos: adj
gloss: Occasional; isolated; one-off
pos: adj
gloss: Passing through; passing from one person to another.
pos: adj
gloss: Intermediate.
pos: adj
gloss: Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
pos: adj
gloss: Something that is transient.
pos: noun
gloss: A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
pos: noun
gloss: A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.
pos: noun
examples: Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.
gloss: A homeless person.
pos: noun
gloss: A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.
pos: noun
examples: The overhead in loading transients is a big time-waster.
These areas function to single thread supervisor routines that are loaded as needed. The Logical Transient Area (LTA) processes $$B transients.
Like with setting and getting transients, WordPress packages a delete_transient() function for deleting a transient from the database.
gloss: A homestay.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
Synonyms: passing
transitory
temporary
fleeting
ephemeral
momentary
Antonyms: permanent
chronic
inveterate
recurrent
immanent
Derived words: intransient
nontransient
rotating radio transient
transience
transiency
transient apical ballooning syndrome
transient ischaemic attack
transient ischemic attack
transient luminous event
transiently
transientness
transitoriness
transumer
untransient
astronomical transient
fast blue optical transient
fast-evolving luminous transient
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: преход
roman: prehod
lang: Danish
word: overgang
lang: German
word: Übergang
lang: Japanese
word: 一時的なもの
roman: ichijitekina mono