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Meaning
Adj
●
In Time:
Passing or
disappearing
with time
; transitory.
●
In Time:
Remaining for only a
brief
time.
●
In Physics & Time:
Decaying
with time
, especially exponentially.
●
In Mathematics:
having
a positive
probability
of being
left
and never being
visited
again.
●
Occasional;
isolated
; one-off
●
Passing through;
passing
from one person to another.
●
In Music:
Intermediate.
●
In Philosophy:
Operating beyond itself; having an
external
effect.
Noun
●
Something that is transient.
●
In Physics:
A
transient
phenomenon
, especially an
electric current
; a very
brief
surge.
●
In Acoustics:
A
relatively
loud
, non-repeating
signal
in an
audio
waveform
that
occurs
very
quickly
, such as the
attack
of a
snare
drum.
●
In People & Time:
A person who
passes through
a place for a
short time
; a
traveller
; a
migrant
worker.
●
A
homeless
person.
●
In Programming & Time:
A
module
that
generally
remains
in
memory
only for a
short
time.
●
In Philippine English:
A homestay.
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Synonyms
Brief
Ephemeral
Fleeting
Flighty
Fugacious
Passing
Transitory
Temporary
Itinerant
Migrant
Traveller
Homeless
Nomadic
Transitional
Antonyms
Permanent
Inveterate
Recurrent
Immanent
Eternal
Related
Temporary
Momentary
Impermanent
Sporadic
Volatile
Current
Static
Evanescent
Persistent
Disturbance
Illusory
Dynamic
Intermittent
Perturbation
Cyclical
Benign
Quiescent
Unstable
Cyclic
Pulse
Oscillation
Reversible
Depressive
Oscillatory
Unpredictable
Voltage
Turbulent
Continuous
Irregular
Recurrent
Chronic
Constant
Mutable
Acute
Unsteady
Episodic
Waveform
Superficial
Load
Oscillations
Infrequent
Amplitude
Labile
Fluid
Sinusoidal
Capacitor
Marginal
Stable
Fluctuation
Excitation
Heterogeneous
Schizophrenic
Fault
Temporal
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