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 tran·sient /-ʃ(i)ənt, ziənt, si; ʒənt, ʤənt/
 暫態,短期居留者,侯鳥,瞬變值(a.)短暫的,易變的,瞬變的,路過的

 tran·sient /ˈtrænzɪənt, ˈtrænʧənt/ 形容詞
 暫時的,迅速消失的,短促的,暫態過程,過渡過程,瞬時(的),暫態(的),過渡的,暫住的,候鳥

 transient
 暫時

 transient
 瞬時 暫態

 Tran·sient a.
 1. Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure. “Measured this transient world.”
 2. Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view of a landscape.
 3. Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a transient guest; transient boarders. [Colloq. U. S.]
 Syn: -- Transient, Transitory, Fleeting.
 Usage: Transient represents a thing as brief at the best; transitory, as liable at any moment to pass away. Fleeting goes further, and represents it as in the act of taking its flight. Life is transient; its joys are transitory; its hours are fleeting.
    What is loose love? A transient gust.   --Pope
 If [we love] transitory things, which soon decay,
 Age must be loveliest at the latest day.   --Donne.
 O fleeting joys
 Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes.   --Milton.
 -- Tran*sient*ly adv. -- Tran*sient*ness, n.

 Tran·sient, n. That which remains but for a brief time.
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 transient
      adj 1: of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind [syn: transeunt]
             [ant: immanent]
      2: enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of
         childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty";
         "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious
         blossoms" [syn: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transitory,
          fugacious]
      n 1: one who stays for only a short time; "transient laborers"
      2: (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a
         sudden change of voltage or current or load