Definitions for transients

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transients tran·sient

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

IPA: /ˈtræn ʃənt, -ʒənt, -zi ənt/

Transients is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 669 anagrams from letters in transients (aeinnrsstt).

Definitions for transients

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 transients

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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