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Definition of 'transient'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) transient
not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory.

2.  transient
lasting only a short time; existing briefly; temporary:
transient authority.

3.  transient
staying only a short time:
transient guests at a hotel.

4. (n.) transient
a person or thing that is transient, esp. a temporary guest, boarder, or laborer.

5.  transient
Physics.

6.  transient
a nonperiodic signal of short duration.

7.  transient
a decaying signal, wave, or oscillation.

8.  transient
a sudden pulse of voltage or current.

Etymology: (1590–1600; < L transi(ēns), prp. of transīre to cross, pass (see transit ) + -ent)

Definition of 'transient'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) transient
one who stays for only a short time
"transient laborers"

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

3. (adj) transeunt, transient
of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind

4. (adj) ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious
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"

Definition of 'transient'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) transient
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

2. (adj) transient
hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view of a landscape

3. (adj) transient
staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a transient guest; transient boarders

4. (noun) transient
that which remains but for a brief time

Definition of 'transient'

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

1. transient
1. Personnel, ships, or craft stopping temporarily at a post, station, or port to which they are not assigned or attached, and having destination elsewhere. 2. An independent merchant ship calling at a port and sailing within 12 hours, and for which routing instructions to a further port have been promulgated. 3. An individual awaiting orders, transport, etc., at a post or station to which he or she is not attached or assigned.

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