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Meaning oftransientin English

transient

Pluraltransients

Definitions

Adjective
1. passing with time; temporary
  The company's transient workers were hired for the summer.
2. remaining briefly; fleeting
  Transient feelings of sadness are normal after a loss.
Noun
1. a traveller or migrant worker
  The city's transient population includes many migrant workers.
2. a homeless person; vagrant
  Social services are available to help the transient homeless.
3. a brief electric surge (in physics); sudden change
  The physicist measured the transient signal in the circuit.
4. a short, loud audio signal (in acoustics)
  The audio engineer detected a transient noise in the recording.

Compounds / Phrases

transient blindness