Transient
['trænzɪənt] or ['trænzɪrnt]
Definition
(noun.) (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load.
(noun.) one who stays for only a short time; 'transient laborers'.
Checker: Willa--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view of a landscape.
(a.) Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a transient guest; transient boarders.
(n.) That which remains but for a brief time.
Typist: Vivienne
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Transitory.
Editor: Pratt
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fleeting, fugitive, transitory, temporary, passing, evanescent, ephemeral, momentary,brief
ANT:Abiding, permanent, perpetual, persistent, lasting, enduring
Typist: Pierce
Definition
adj. passing: of short duration: not lasting: momentary: (mus.) intermediate.—ns. Tran′sience Tran′siency transientness.—adv. Tran′siently.—n. Tran′sientness.
Typed by Denis
Examples
- That Tuesday afternoon the transient doze--more like lethargy than sleep--which sometimes abridged the long days, had stolen over her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The sun had bathed in gold the western atmosphere, and in the east the clouds caught the radiance, and budded into transient loveliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But it was only a transient happiness. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word _book_ acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient. Plato. The Republic.
- I had vowed to my own heart never to shadow her countenance even with transient grief, and should I prove recreant at the hour of greatest need? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But he had no hereditary constitutional craving after such transient escapes from the hauntings of misery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The apparition had been transient--scarce seen ere gone; but its electric passage left her veins kindled, her soul insurgent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He advanced; he opened the door; my back was towards it; I felt a little thrill--a curious sensation, too quick and transient to be analyzed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I was, however, obliged by circumstances to proceed on my journey, without leisure to take more than a transient view of Coningsburgh. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Niepce must, therefore, be awarded the honour of having first discovered the means of rendering permanent the transient images of the camera obscura. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The blood rushed in anger to the countenance of Richard; but it was the first transient emotion, and his sense of justice instantly subdued it. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She saw the transient misery; and then, indeed, she caressed me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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