Synonyms:
transeunt, transient
Meaning: of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind
Synonyms:
ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious
Meaning: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
transient
Meaning: (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load
Synonyms:
transient
Meaning: one who stays for only a short time; "transient laborers"
Usage examples
In these there was nothing artificial, nothing transient.
God, therefore, is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
He uses the transient shake in the third bar, instead of the appoggiatura which Klindworth prefers.
Such evils are doubtless great, but they are transient; whereas the benefits which attend them remain.
Of course, intellect, too, is transient and not eternal, but you know why I cherish a partiality for it.
"Aha, we'll have a good gallop after that brush to-morrow," said the Major, with a transient gleam of good humour.
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge--but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
The sudden and undeserved promotion of a courtier produces only a transient impression in an aristocratic country, because the aggregate institutions and opinions of the nation habitually compel men to advance slowly in tracks which they cannot get out of.
The stuff of the world, so far as we have experience of it, consists, on the view that I am advocating, of innumerable transient particulars such as occur in seeing, hearing, etc., together with images more or less resembling these, of which I shall speak shortly.