transient
adjective
- short-lived
- passing, changing, in motion
noun
- short burst of energy due to a state change
- short-lived pressure wave
- high amplitude, short-duration sound at the beginning of an acoustic waveform
- a person who passes through an area for a short time
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹan.zi.ənt/ / /ˈtɹɑːn.zi.ənt/ / /-si.ənt/
adj
Etymology: From Late Latin transiēnt- (for classical transeunt-), stem of transiēns, present participle of trānsīre (“to go over, to pass”).
- 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.
- 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
Etymology: From Late Latin transiēnt- (for classical transeunt-), stem of transiēns, present participle of trānsīre (“to go over, to pass”).
- 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.
- A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.
“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.”
- A homestay.