transient
Etymology
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Etymology
From Late Latin (for classical transeunt-), stem of transiēns, present participle of transire.
Pronunciation- (RP) IPA: /ˈtɹan.zi.ənt/, /ˈtɹɑːn.zi.ənt/, /-si.ənt/
- (America) IPA: /ˈtɹæn.ʃənt/, /ˈtɹæn.si.ənt/, /ˈtɹæn.zi.ənt/
transient
- Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
- a transient pleasure
- 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗:
- this transient world
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC ↗, Canto XVI, page 26 ↗:
- 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?
- Remaining for only a brief time.
- a transient view of a landscape
- a transient disease
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC ↗, page 27 ↗:
- Taking advantage of the surprise, which assured him at least transient attention, he continued, addressing himself particularly to Evelyn.
- (physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
- Occasional; isolated; one-off
- Passing through; passing from one person to another.
- (music) Intermediate.
- (philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
- (antonym(s) of “passing”): permanent
- (antonym(s) of “brief”): permanent, chronic, inveterate
- (antonym(s) of “mathematics”): recurrent
- (antonym(s) of “philosophy”): immanent
- French: passager, provisoire, transitoire, temporaire
- German: vergänglich, vorübergehend, temporär, instationär, Übergangs- (prefix), unbeständig, Ausgleichs- (prefix), abklingend, transient
- Italian: transitorio
- Portuguese: transitório
- Russian: преходя́щий
- Spanish: transitorio
- German: kurzlebig, flüchtig, zerfallend
- German: transient
- German: gelegentlich, isoliert, einmalig, Augenblicks- (prefix)
- Russian: случа́йный
- German: Durchgangs- (prefix), durchlaufend, Ausgleichs- (prefix), mobil
transient (plural transients)
- Something that is transient.
- (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
- (acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
- A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.
- A homeless person.
- (programming) A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.
- 1990, Gary A. Stotts, DOS/VSE: Introduction to the Operating System, page 102:
- These areas function to single thread supervisor routines that are loaded as needed. The Logical Transient Area (LTA) processes $$B transients.
- (Philippines) A homestay.
- German: Übergang
- German: Transiente
- Italian: transiente
- German: Einschwingungsvorgang
- French: itinérant
- German: Reisende, Reisender, Durchreisende, Durchreisender
- Spanish: trotamundo, transeúnte
- French: clochard, clodo, sans-abri, SDF
- German: Obdachlose, Obdachloser
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