Definitions for transient

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transient tran·sient

Spelling: [tran-shuh nt, -zhuh nt, -zee-uh nt]

IPA: /ˈtræn ʃənt, -ʒənt, -zi ənt/

Transient is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 529 anagrams from letters in transient (aeinnrstt).

Definitions for transient

noun

1. a person or thing that is transient, especially a temporary guest, boarder, laborer, or the like.
2. Mathematics. a function that tends to zero as the independent variable tends to infinity. a solution, especially of a differential equation, having this property.
3. Physics. a nonperiodic signal of short duration. a decaying signal, wave, or oscillation.
4. Electricity. a sudden pulse of voltage or current.

adjective

1. not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory.
2. lasting only a short time; existing briefly; temporary:
3. staying only a short time:
4. Philosophy. transeunt.

Origin of transient

1590-1600; Latin transi(ēns) (nominative singular), present participle of transīre to pass by, literally, go across + -ent; see Examples for transient

Presidential power is surprisingly personal, contingent, and transient, not just institutional and consistent.

They got exactly what the transient may expect in any country.

HPV is so transient because no form of safe sex is fool proof.

Los Angeles police have described Campbell as a transient who has lived in the city for only a short period.

The emotion of grief is real with them, I believe, but transient.

The lines of camp-fires begin to gleam from the transient Bedouin villages.

Because my upbringing was so transient, New York ended up being my home.

"I will not make the most of it, Mr. Eld," the old man said, with a transient smile.

In this case “transient” is attached, because most patients with this disorder make a full recovery after a period of time.

Calmness is imperative: to be as motionless as transient beings can.