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transient

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English

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Etymology

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FromLate Latintransiēnt- (for classicaltranseunt-), stem oftransiēns, present participle oftrānsīre(“to go over, to pass”).

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈtɹan.zi.ənt/,/ˈtɹɑːn.zi.ənt/,/-si.ənt/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
(US)IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæn.ʃənt/,/ˈtɹæn.si.ənt/,/ˈtɹæn.zi.ənt/
Hyphenation:tran‧sient

Adjective

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transient (comparativemoretransient,superlativemosttransient)

Passing or disappearing withtime;transitory.
atransient pleasure
- 1667,John Milton, “Book X”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:
  thistransient world
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVI”, inIn Memoriam, London:Edward Moxon, […],→OCLC,page26:
  Or doth she only seem to take
  ⁠The touch of change in calm or storm;
  ⁠But knows no more oftransient form
  In her deep self, than some dead lake
  That holds the shadow of a lark
  ⁠Hung in the shadow of a heaven?
Remaining for only abrief time.
atransient view of a landscape
atransient disease
- 1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, inFrancesca Carrara. […], volume III, London:Richard Bentley, […], (successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page27:
  Taking advantage of the surprise, which assured him at leasttransient attention, he continued, addressing himself particularly to Evelyn.
- 1980 August 9, Robin Bechhofer, Emmy Goldknopf, “Class Reunion”, inGay Community News, page13:
  Traditionally, alumnae have more impact than students, whom the administration views astransient.
(physics)Decaying with time, especiallyexponentially.
(mathematics, stochastic processes, of astate) having a positiveprobability of being left and never being visited again.
Occasional; isolated;one-off
Passing through; passing from one person to another.
(music)Intermediate.
(philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.

Synonyms

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(passing):passing,transitory,temporary
(brief):brief,ephemeral,fleeting,flighty,fugacious

Antonyms

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(antonym(s) of“passing”):permanent
(antonym(s) of“brief”):permanent,chronic,inveterate
(antonym(s) of“mathematics”):recurrent
(antonym(s) of“philosophy”):immanent

Derived terms

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Translations

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passing or disappearing with time; transitory

Arabic:مُؤَقَّت(muʔaqqat),سَريع الزوال,اِبْنُ ساعَتِهِ(ibnu sāʕatihi),زَمَنِيّ(zamaniyy)
Bulgarian:преходен (bg)(prehoden)
Chinese:
Mandarin:短暫的 /短暂的 (zh)(duǎnzàn de)
Danish:overgående
Dutch:vergankelijk (nl),eindig (nl),transitorisch (nl)
Finnish:ohimenevä (fi),katoava (fi),katoavainen (fi),häipyvä (fi)
French:passager (fr),provisoire (fr),transitoire (fr),temporaire (fr)
Galician:transitorio (gl)
Georgian:წარმავალი(c̣armavali),გადამავალი(gadamavali),დროებითი(droebiti)
German:vergänglich (de),vorübergehend (de),temporär (de),instationär,Übergangs-(prefix),unbeständig (de),Ausgleichs-(prefix),abklingend (de),transient (de)
Greek:παροδικός (el)(parodikós),πρόσκαιρος (el) m(próskairos)
Irish:díomuan,duthain
Italian:transitorio (it) m
Japanese:儚い (ja)(はかない, hakanai)
Norwegian:
Bokmål:transitorisk
Nynorsk:transitorisk
Occitan:transitòri (oc)
Portuguese:transitório (pt)
Romanian:trecător (ro),efemer (ro),tranzient (ro),tranzitoriu (ro),vremelnic (ro)
Russian:преходя́щий (ru)(prexodjáščij),мимолётный (ru)(mimoljótnyj),недолгове́чный (ru)(nedolgovéčnyj),скороте́чный (ru)(skorotéčnyj),кратковре́менный (ru)(kratkovrémennyj),транзито́рный (ru)(tranzitórnyj)
Spanish:transitorio (es)
Swedish:övergående (sv),förgänglig (sv),flyktig (sv)

remaining for only a brief time

Bulgarian:краткотраен (bg)(kratkotraen),мимолетен (bg)(mimoleten)
Chinese:
Mandarin:瞬間 /瞬间 (zh)(shùnjiān)
Danish:midlertidig (da)
Dutch:kortstondig (nl)
Finnish:lyhytaikainen (fi),hetkellinen (fi)
French:bref (fr),éphémère (fr),fugace (fr)
Georgian:დროებითი(droebiti),ხანმოკლე(xanmoḳle),დრომოკლე(dromoḳle),წუთიერი(c̣utieri),წამიერი(c̣amieri)
German:kurzzeitig (de),flüchtig (de),kurzlebig (de),passager (de)
Greek:παροδικός (el)(parodikós),εφήμερος (el) m(efímeros),φευγαλέος (el) m(fevgaléos)
Indonesian:transien
Irish:díomuan,duthain
Japanese:瞬間的 (ja)(shunkanteki),一時的 (ja)(ichijiteki),一過性 (ja)(ikkasei)
Māori:rangitahi,tūao
Occitan:fugidís (oc)
Romanian:trecător (ro)
Russian:вре́менный (ru)(vrémennyj)
Swedish:kortvarig (sv),flyktig (sv)
Turkish:geçici (tr)

Decaying with time, especially exponentially

Danish:flyktig
German:kurzlebig (de),flüchtig (de),zerfallend (de)
Greek:εφήμερος (el) m(efímeros)
Japanese:過渡 (ja)(kato)

mathematics: having positive probability of being left

German:transient (de)
Hebrew:חולף(choléf)

occasional; isolated; one-off; individual

Danish:engangs-
German:gelegentlich (de),isoliert (de),einmalig (de),Augenblicks-(prefix)
Russian:случа́йный (ru)(slučájnyj),отде́льный (ru)(otdélʹnyj)

passing through; passing from one person to another

Bulgarian:преходен (bg)(prehoden)
German:Durchgangs-(prefix),durchlaufend (de),Ausgleichs-(prefix),mobil (de)
Japanese:過渡 (ja)(kato)

operating beyond itself; having an external effect

Noun

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transient (pluraltransients)

Something that is transient.
(physics) A transientphenomenon, especially anelectric current; a very briefsurge.
(acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audiowaveform that occurs very quickly, such as theattack of asnare drum.
A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; amigrant worker.
- 1996,Janette Turner Hospital,Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 3:
  Then, within the space of a few months, there were moretransients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.
Ahomeless person.
(programming) Amodule that generally remains inmemory only for a short time.
- 1978,Computerworld, volume12, number25, page26:
  The overhead in loadingtransients is a big time-waster.
- 1990, Gary A. Stotts,DOS/VSE: Introduction to the Operating System, page102:
  These areas function to single thread supervisor routines that are loaded as needed. The Logical Transient Area (LTA) processes $$Btransients.
- 2020, Brad Williams, Justin Tadlock, John James Jacoby,Professional WordPress Plugin Development, page102:
  Like with setting and gettingtransients, WordPress packages adelete_transient() function for deleting atransient from the database.
(Philippines) Ahomestay.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)