transient

adj

1. Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

   “a transient pleasure”

   “this transient world”

   “Or doth she only seem to take ⁠The touch of change in calm or storm; ⁠But knows no more of transient form In her deep self, than some dead lake That holds the shadow of a lark ⁠Hung in the shadow of a heaven?”

2. Remaining for only a brief time.

   “a transient view of a landscape”

   “a transient disease”

   “Taking advantage of the surprise, which assured him at least transient attention, he continued, addressing himself particularly to Evelyn.”

   “Traditionally, alumnae have more impact than students, whom the administration views as transient.”

3. Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
4. 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.

noun

1. Something that is transient.
2. A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
3. A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that 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.

   “Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.”

5. A homeless person.
6. A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.

   “The overhead in loading transients is a big time-waster.”

   “These areas function to single thread supervisor routines that are loaded as needed. The Logical Transient Area (LTA) processes $$B transients.”

   “Like with setting and getting transients, WordPress packages a delete_transient() function for deleting a transient from the database.”

7. (Philippines)A homestay.