1. Passing with time; transitory: “the transient beauty of youth” (Lydia M. Child). 2. Remaining in a place only a brief time: transient laborers.3.Physics Decaying with time, especially as a simple exponential function of time.
NOUN:
1. One that is transient, especially a hotel guest or boarder who stays for only a brief time. 2.Physics A transient phenomenon or property, especially a transient electric current.
ETYMOLOGY:
Alteration of Latin trnsins, trnseunt-, present participle of trnsre, to go over : trns-, over; see trans– + re, to go; see ei- in Appendix I.
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