ephemeral
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɛˈfɛ.mə.ɹəl/, /əˈfɛ.mə.ɹəl/
ephemeral (plural ephemerals)
Adjectiveephemeral
- Lasting for a short period of time.
- Synonyms: temporary, transitory, fleeting, evanescent, momentary, short-lived, short, volatile, Thesaurus:ephemeral
- Antonyms: permanent, eternal, everlasting, timeless
- Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided.
- sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy
- (biology) Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
- (geology, of a body of water) Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.
- 1986, W.H. Raymond, "Clinoptilolite Deposit in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.", in Yūichi Murakami et al. (editors), New Developments in Zeolite Science and Technology (conference proceedings), Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-444-98981-9, page 80 ↗:
- The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.
- 1986, W.H. Raymond, "Clinoptilolite Deposit in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.", in Yūichi Murakami et al. (editors), New Developments in Zeolite Science and Technology (conference proceedings), Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-444-98981-9, page 80 ↗:
- French: éphémère
- German: flüchtig, kurzlebig, vergänglich
- Italian: effimero, passeggero, fuggevole, transitorio, fugace
- Portuguese: efêmero
- Russian: эфеме́рный
- Spanish: efímero
- German: Eintags-
- Russian: однодневный
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