Word Finder - transient

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Something which is transient.

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A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.

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(acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.

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A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker

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A homeless person.

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Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

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a transient pleasure

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Remaining for only a brief time.

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a transient disease

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Decaying with time, especially exponentially.

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(stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.

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Occasional; isolated; one-off

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Passing through; passing from one person to another.

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Intermediate.

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Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.

There is a transient population of thousands of visitors during the year.

These exploits, however, were transient in their effects.

It is unusually hard, owing to the recent severe but transient cold, and all watered or waved like a palace floor.

It was only the news of his brothers captivity in Austria which gave the intriguing prince a transient hope of success.

Mild side effects, which are usually transient, may occur initially.

The love is often transient, whilst the self-pity is more lasting.

What we are seeing here is diffuse alopecia due to transient hypothyroidism in a person technically suffering from hyperthyroidism.

Nor was its influence transient.

Dry mouth, transient rise of serum alanine aminotransferase values and sleeping disorders have been reported more frequently than in patients receiving placebo.

Whether the closed primitive shell-sac of the slugs (and with it the transient embryonic shell-gland of all other Mollusca) is precisely the same thing as the closed sac in which the calcareous pen or shell of the Cephalopod Sepia and its allies is formed, is a further question which we shall consider when dealing with the Cephalopoda.

In patients with proliferative retinopathy, particularly if not treated with photocoagulation, severe hypoglycaemic episodes may result in transient amaurosis.

Transient relative lactase deficiency in younger infants may be a cause of some cases of infant colic.

Acute administration in animals or man has occasionally induced a transient elevation of blood sugar.

It's a very transient zone with most people just here for a short holiday.

The mutual assurances of unbounded confidence, admiration and sympathy, if there was any genuine sincerity in them, represented merely a transient state of feeling.

There were transient disputes with the United States (1886, 1888).

D is due to transient induction in horizontal soft iron, the direction of which passes continuously under or over the compass.

E is due to transient induction in horizontal soft iron unsymmetrically placed with regard to the compass.

The history of the decay of state rights makes it seem doubtful if the federal form of government is a permanent one, or is only a transient form between independent state governments or loose confederacies and a centralized national government.

The effect of such measures was, of course, transient.

In this change is the whole difference between the art of character and the art of emotion; and though the emotional side is the more popular, ul needing less thought to understand it, yet the unfailing canon is that in every age and land the true quality of art is proportionate to the expression of character as apart from transient emotion.

The wave of change (nervous impulse) induced in a neuron by advent of a stimulus is after all only a sudden augmentation of an activity continuous within the neuron - a transient accentuation of one (the disintegrative) phase of the metabolism inherent in and inseparable from its life.

Examinations as tests of the knowledge of isolated facts are necessarily of relatively small value, because the memory of such facts is transient; and memorization of a large number of facts for examination purposes is generally admitted to be specially transient; the " knowledge-test," considered apart from a test of capacity, is in fact not a test of permanent knowledge, but of the power of retaining facts for a length of time which it is impossible to estimate and which with some candidates extends over a few weeks only.

Averroes was recalled to Morocco when the transient passion of the people had been satisfied, and for a brief period survived his restoration to honour.

In its final manifestation during the Commonwealth, Puritanism won a transient victory over the mundane forces of both Reformation and Renaissance, as these had taken shape in England.

Of course we are unable to say whether such a region is an actuality in the sun, on the earth it is an exception and transient, but the greater the dimensions of the body the more probable is its occurrence.

He was beginning to be himself by 1864 or 1865 - that was the first of such periods of his as may be accounted good - and, though not at that time so fully a master of transient effects of weather as he became later, he began then to paint with a success genuinely artistic the scenes of the harbour and the estuary, which no longer lost vivacity by deliberate and too obvious completeness.

He could not have become suddenly blind to the fallacy of the expectations derived from such a course; and all his life it had been his distinction to look above the transient and trafficking expedients of the professional politician.

Only he who apprehends good in the abstract can imitate it in such transient and imperfect good as may be realized in human life, and it is impossible that, having this knowledge, he should not act on it, whether in private or public affairs.

For (r), as concrete and transient, it is obviously not the real essential good that the philosopher seeks; (2) the feelings most prominently recognized as pleasures are bound up with pain, as good can never be with evil; in so far, then, as common sense rightly recognizes some pleasures as good, it can only be from their tendency to produce some further good.

Indeed, it is common for men to sacrifice to passion what they know to be their true interests; at the same time we do not consider such conduct " natural " in man as a rational being; we rather regard it as natural for him to govern his transient impulses.

In this department he lays down the moral axiom " that the labourer is entitled to the fruit of his own labour " as the principle on which complete rights of property are founded; maintaining that occupancy alone would only confer a transient right of possession during use.

Similarly the conception of the self as a moral unity arises`naturally out of the impossibility of finding the summum bonum in a succession of transient states of consciousness such as hedonism for example postulates.

The legendary kings are but faint echoes of the kings of Biainas; the story of Semiramis and Ara is but another form of the myth of Venus and Adonis; and tradition has clothed Tigranes, the reputed friend of Cyrus, with the transient glory of the opponent of Lucullus.

The first system is the study of protein modules which mediate transient associations at sites of focal adhesion.

Transient moderate elevations of ASAT, ALAT and alkaline phosphatases and/or bilirubin have been reported.

Figure 2 shows the effect of erosion as the result of transient cavitation on an aluminum electrode.

What we do know is that some of the badger clans are almost transient, possibly nomadic!

Toxicities included transient periorbital edema in four eyes and optic atrophy in one eye that also received laser photocoagulation and cryotherapy.

A transient association with owners, lodgers or tenants, however eminent, will not normally be considered important.

These are a transient intracellular form, either rapidly infecting new erythrocytes to complete the erythrocytic cycle, or dying.

We believe that transient weakness is actually muscular fatigue.

The only side effect of treatment has been transient flushing during the bolus infusion.

But the panic and the insecurity are merely instinctive and transient.

The other factor which may give rise to heterophoria changes is the potential of HMDs to induce transient myopia.

Transient paraesthesia, numbness and anesthesia of the leg can occur due to spread of anesthetic solution to the sacral plexus 27.

The individual concerned showed transient pyrexia, flu-like symptoms and sinusitis, but after antibiotic treatment made a full recovery.

Transient and static fields are not serialized or deserialized.

A bypass capacitor stores an electrical charge that is released to the power line whenever a transient voltage spike occurs.

The commonest cause of hip pain is acute transient synovitis.