transient
adjective
- 1
Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
a transient pleasure
- 2
Remaining for only a brief time.
a transient view of a landscape
a transient disease
- 3
Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
- 4
unsteady, non-]-steady-state.
- 5
having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
- 6
Occasional; isolated; one-off
- 7
Passing through; passing from one person to another.
- 8
Intermediate.
- 9
Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
noun
- 1
Something that is transient.
- 2
A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
- 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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