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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transient \Tran"sient\, noun That which remains but for a brief time. --Glanvill.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transient \Tran"sient\, adjective [L. transiens, -entis, p. pr. of transire, transitum, to go or pass over. See {Trance}.]
1. Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure. ''Measured this transient world.'' --Milton.
2. Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view of a landscape.
3. Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a transient guest; transient boarders. [Colloq. U. S.]
Syn: {Transient}, {Transitory}, {Fleeting}.
Usage: Transient represents a thing as brief at the best; transitory, as liable at any moment to pass away. Fleeting goes further, and represents it as in the act of taking its flight. Life is transient; its joys are transitory; its hours are fleeting.
What is loose love? A transient gust. --Pope
If [we love] transitory things, which soon decay, Age must be loveliest at the latest day. --Donne.
O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes. --Milton. -- {Tran"sient*ly}, adverb -- {Tran"sient*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
transient
adjective
1: of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind [syn: {transeunt}] [ant: {immanent}]
2: enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" [syn: {ephemeral}, {passing}, {short-lived}, {transitory}, {fugacious}]
noun
1: one who stays for only a short time; "transient laborers"
2: (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
188 Moby Thesaurus words for "transient": able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, adventurer, alpinist, alterable, alterative, arising, astronaut, board-and-roomer, boarder, brief, brittle, camper, capricious, changeable, checkered, circumforaneous, climber, comers and goers, coming, commuter, compact, compendious, concise, corruptible, cosmopolite, cruiser, curt, curtal, curtate, deciduous, decurtate, disappearing, discursive, dissolving, divagatory, drifting, dying, emanating, emanative, emanent, emergent, emerging, ephemeral, errant, evanescent, evaporating, ever-changing, excursionist, explorer, fading, fare, fickle, fleeting, flexible, flitting, floating, fluid, fly-by-night, flying, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, forthcoming, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, gadding, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hajji, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, instantaneous, insubstantial, issuing, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, kaleidoscopic, landloping, lessee, little, lodger, low, malleable, many-sided, mariner, meandering, melting, metamorphic, migrational, migratory, mobile, modifiable, momentaneous, momentary, mortal, mountaineer, movable, mutable, nomad, nomadic, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonuniform, palmer, passenger, passer, passerby, passing, pathfinder, paying guest, perishable, permutable, pilgrim, pioneer, plastic, protean, proteiform, rambling, ranging, renter, resilient, roaming, roomer, roving, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rubbery, sailor, shifting, short, short and sweet, short-lived, short-term, sightseer, sojourner, straggling, straphanger, straying, strolling, subject to death, succinct, summary, supple, surfacing, synoptic, temporal, temporary, temporary lodger, tenant, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, traipsing, transeunt, transient guest, transitive, transitory, transmigratory, traveler, trekker, tripper, underlessee, undurable, unenduring, unstable, vagabond, vagrant, vanishing, variable, viator, visiting fireman, volatile, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wandering, wayfarer, world-traveler
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
transient
1. A sudden, brief increase in {current} or {voltage} in a circuit that can damage sensitive components and instruments. (2003-06-12) 2. A software object with a short and limited lifetime which is not saved for later reuse. (1998-04-19)
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