[ US /ˈtɹænʒənt/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈænsi‍ənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind
  2. lasting a very short time
    fugacious blossoms
    the ephemeral joys of childhood
    a passing fancy
    youth's transient beauty
    love is transitory but it is eternal
NOUN
  1. (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load
  2. one who stays for only a short time
    transient laborers
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How To Use transient In A Sentence

  • I'd live the transient and ephemeral existence of a backpacker for a week, an existence of freedom and simple pleasures.
  • Norman Neal Williams had been a transient, they learned, an itinerant vitamin salesman with no known relatives. MORE TALES OF THE CITY
  • Other situations affecting power quality are transients or spikes, surges or over-voltages, noise and sags or brownouts.
  • By the use of the eigenfunctions, the formulas of the propagation of the transient wave along rod, beam and beam-rod structures are derived in the present paper.
  • Ser is the verb infinitive for transient 'to be' ... What does this mean?
  • In order to enhance the single-phase auto-reclosing success rate, we must inhibit the arc current and the Transient Recovery Voltage efficiently.
  • She was panting: her breath forming strings of transient puffs in the cold air.
  • Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom.
  • The hurt or injury need not be serious or permanent but must be more than trifling or transient.
  • Quite a few young women were brought in, usually street walkers and transients, which were considered wards of the state.
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