Usually means: Temporary, not lasting; briefly present.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word transient:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. transient: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. transient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. transient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. transient: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Transient, transient: Wordnik
  6. transient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. transient: Wiktionary
  8. transient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. transient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. transient: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. transient: Dictionary.com
  12. transient (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. transient: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Transient (acoustics), Transient (album), Transient (civil engineering), Transient (computer programming), Transient (electricity), Transient (oscillation), Transient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Transient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. transient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. transient: Rhymezone
  18. transient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. transient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. transient: Free Dictionary
  21. transient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. transient: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. transient: Vocabulary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. transient: Glossary of research economics
  3. transient: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. transient: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. transient: CCI Computer
  3. transient: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  3. transient: Medical dictionary
  4. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Transient: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transient: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Transient: Data Acquisition
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  6. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See transiently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
adjective:  Remaining for only a brief time.
adjective:  (physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
adjective:  (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
adjective:  Occasional; isolated; one-off
adjective:  Passing through; passing from one person to another.
adjective:  (music) Intermediate.
adjective:  (philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
noun:  Something that is transient.
noun:  (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
noun:  (acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
noun:  A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.
noun:  A homeless person.
noun:  (programming) A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.
noun:  (Philippines) A homestay.

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