transient

Meanings

Adjective

• Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
• Remaining for only a brief time.
• Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
• having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
• Occasional; isolated; one-off
• Passing through; passing from one person to another.
• Intermediate.
• Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.

Noun

• Something that is transient.
• A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
• 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.
• A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.

Related

Similar words

• passing, transitory, temporary
• brief, ephemeral, fleeting, flighty, fugacious
• itinerant, migrant, traveller
• homeless

Opposite words

• permanent
• permanent, inveterate
• recurrent
• immanent

Origin

• From stem of Latin transiens, present participle of transeo