transient
- Adjective. Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
- Adjective. Remaining for only a brief time.
- Adjective. (physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
- Adjective. (mathematics, stochastic processes) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
- Adjective. Occasional; isolated; one-off; individual.
- Adjective. Passing through; passing from one person to another.
- Adjective. (philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
- Noun. Something which is transient.
- Noun. (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
- Noun. (acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
- Noun. A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.
- Noun. An unhoused person.
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