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transient::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transitory |
| Derivation | transience, transiency |
youth's transient beauty.
transient::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | transeunt |
transient::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | oscillation, vibration |
Examples of transient
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There's a reason the transient camps of the unemployed were called Hoovervilles.
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For about half of the children, difficulties in learning language are transient.
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Despite its long history, it can seem a transient place, with no fixed identity.
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He also deserves credit as a beacon of stability in an often transient business.
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Males disperse much farther from their mothers and enter into a transient phase.
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Officers found a 53-year-old male transient who had been stabbed multiple times.
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Had they ever seen a transient with a dog who stopped showing up after the fire?
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The selectivity is such as to make this as transient as yesterday's chip papers.
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Players are transient Sir Quiet, the true Wolves fans wants the club to endure.
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- One who stays for only a short time; "transient laborers"
- Transeunt: of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind
- (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load
- Ephemeral: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"
- (transiently) for a very short time; "these three pions may actually be joined together transiently as a compound particle during the interchange process"
- (transience) brevity: the attribute of being brief or fleeting
- In acoustics and audio, a transient is a short-duration signal that represents a non-harmonic attack phase of a musical sound or spoken word. It contains a high degree of non-periodic components and a higher magnitude of high frequencies than the harmonic content of that sound. ...
- In civil engineering, a transient is used to refer to any pressure wave that is short lived (i.e. not static pressure or pressure differential due to friction/minor loss in flow). The most common occurrence of this is called water hammer. ...
- In the Java programming language, transient is a keyword used as a field modifier. When a field is declared transient, it would not be serialized even if the class to which it belongs is serialized. In Java, methods, classes and interfaces cannot be declared as transient.
