transient
Word Statistics
Academic vocabulary
Regularly used in writing and speech
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Academic vocabulary
noun
1. Something which is transient.
2. A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
3. (acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
4. A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker
5. A homeless person.
Synonyms
adjective
1. Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
"a transient pleasure"
2. Remaining for only a brief time.
"a transient disease"
3. Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
4. (stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
5. Occasional; isolated; one-off
6. Passing through; passing from one person to another.
7. Intermediate.
8. Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
Synonyms
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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