Transient \Tran"sient\, a. [L. transiens, -entis, p. pr. of
transire, transitum, to go or pass over. See Trance.]
1. 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; as, transient pleasure. "Measured this
transient world." --Milton.
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2. Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view
of a landscape.
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3. Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a
transient guest; transient boarders. [Colloq. U. S.]
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Syn: Transient, Transitory, Fleeting.
Usage: Transient represents a thing as brief at the best;
transitory, as liable at any moment to pass away.
Fleeting goes further, and represents it as in the act
of taking its flight. Life is transient; its joys are
transitory; its hours are fleeting.
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What is loose love? A transient gust. --Pope
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If [we love] transitory things, which soon
decay,
Age must be loveliest at the latest day.
--Donne.
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O fleeting joys
Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes.
--Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Transient \Tran"sient\, n.
That which remains but for a brief time. --Glanvill.
[1913 Webster] Transilience
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
transient
adj 1: of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind [syn: transeunt]
[ant: immanent]
2: enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of
childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty";
"love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious
blossoms" [syn: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transitory,
fugacious]
n 1: one who stays for only a short time; "transient laborers"
2: (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a
sudden change of voltage or current or load
WordNet (r) 2.0
188 Moby Thesaurus words for "transient":
able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, adventurer, alpinist,
alterable, alterative, arising, astronaut, board-and-roomer,
boarder, brief, brittle, camper, capricious, changeable, checkered,
circumforaneous, climber, comers and goers, coming, commuter,
compact, compendious, concise, corruptible, cosmopolite, cruiser,
curt, curtal, curtate, deciduous, decurtate, disappearing,
discursive, dissolving, divagatory, drifting, dying, emanating,
emanative, emanent, emergent, emerging, ephemeral, errant,
evanescent, evaporating, ever-changing, excursionist, explorer,
fading, fare, fickle, fleeting, flexible, flitting, floating,
fluid, fly-by-night, flying, footloose, footloose and fancy-free,
forthcoming, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, gadding,
globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hajji,
impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, instantaneous,
insubstantial, issuing, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer,
kaleidoscopic, landloping, lessee, little, lodger, low, malleable,
many-sided, mariner, meandering, melting, metamorphic, migrational,
migratory, mobile, modifiable, momentaneous, momentary, mortal,
mountaineer, movable, mutable, nomad, nomadic, nondurable,
nonpermanent, nonuniform, palmer, passenger, passer, passerby,
passing, pathfinder, paying guest, perishable, permutable, pilgrim,
pioneer, plastic, protean, proteiform, rambling, ranging, renter,
resilient, roaming, roomer, roving, rubberneck, rubbernecker,
rubbery, sailor, shifting, short, short and sweet, short-lived,
short-term, sightseer, sojourner, straggling, straphanger,
straying, strolling, subject to death, succinct, summary, supple,
surfacing, synoptic, temporal, temporary, temporary lodger, tenant,
tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, traipsing, transeunt,
transient guest, transitive, transitory, transmigratory, traveler,
trekker, tripper, underlessee, undurable, unenduring, unstable,
vagabond, vagrant, vanishing, variable, viator, visiting fireman,
volatile, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wandering, wayfarer,
world-traveler
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
transient
1. A sudden, brief increase in current or
voltage in a circuit that can damage sensitive components
and instruments.
(2003-06-12)
2. A software object with a short and limited
lifetime which is not saved for later reuse.
(1998-04-19)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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