1. Of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind
   - transeunt 
2. Lasting a very short time
   "youth's transient beauty"
   - ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transitory, fugacious, here today gone tomorrow, here today and gone tomorrow

1. One who stays for only a short time
   "transient labourers" 
2. (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load

Derived forms: transients

See also: impermanent, temporary, transience, transiency, transiently

Type of: oscillation, traveler [US], traveller [Brit, Cdn], vibration

Encyclopedia: Transient

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