transient

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Passing or disappearing with time

   Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

   • a transient pleasure
   • this transient world
   • Or doth she only seem to take ⁠The touch of change in calm or storm; ⁠But knows no more of transient form In her deep self, than some dead lake That holds the shadow of a lark ⁠Hung in the shadow of a heaven?
2. 2

   Remaining for only a brief time.

   • a transient view of a landscape
   • a transient disease
   • Taking advantage of the surprise, which assured him at least transient attention, he continued, addressing himself particularly to Evelyn.
3. 3

   Decaying with time, especially exponentially.

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   1. 4

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

   2. 5

      Occasional

      Occasional; isolated; one-off

   3. 6

      Passing through

      Passing through; passing from one person to another.

   4. 7

      Intermediate.

   5. 8

      Operating beyond itself

      Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.

   6. 9

      Something that is transient.

   7. 10

      A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current

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

   8. 11

      A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly,…

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

   9. 12

      A person who passes through a place for a short time

      A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.

      • Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.
   10. 13

       A homeless person.

   11. 14

       A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.

       • The overhead in loading transients is a big time-waster.
       • These areas function to single thread supervisor routines that are loaded as needed. The Logical Transient Area (LTA) processes $$B transients.
       • Like with setting and getting transients, WordPress packages a delete_transient() function for deleting a transient from the database.
   12. 15

       A homestay.

The neighborhood

• synonympassingpassing
• synonymtransitorypassing
• synonymtemporarypassing
• synonymfleeting
• synonymephemeral
• synonymmomentary
• antonympermanentantonym(s) of “passing”
• antonymchronicantonym(s) of “brief”
• antonyminveterateantonym(s) of “brief”
• antonymrecurrentantonym(s) of “mathematics”
• antonymimmanentantonym(s) of “philosophy”