transient

adjective

  1. 1

    Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

    a transient pleasure

  2. 2

    Remaining for only a brief time.

    a transient view of a landscape

    a transient disease

  3. 3

    Decaying with time, especially exponentially.

  4. 4

    unsteady, non-]-steady-state.

  5. 5

    having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.

  6. 6

    Occasional; isolated; one-off

  7. 7

    Passing through; passing from one person to another.

  8. 8

    Intermediate.

  9. 9

    Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.

noun

  1. 1

    Something that is transient.

  2. 2

    A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.

  3. 3

    A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.

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