transience

transient | American Dictionary

transient
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈtræn·ʃənt, -dʒənt, -zi·ənt/
lasting for only a short time; temporary:
The weakness was transient, and soon I was feeling strong again.
Transient also means staying for only a short time:
Transient workers come to pick apples and then head south to harvest other crops.

transient

noun[ C ]us/ˈtræn·ʃənt, -dʒənt, -zi·ənt/
Even transients just staying a day or two pay sales taxes.

transient | Business English

transient
adjective
uk /ˈtrænziənt/us
something that is transient only lasts for a short time:
The transient nature of the jobs market often conspires to force young people to stay at home.
WORKPLACE, HR
transient workers work in a particular place or organization for only short periods of time:
a transient workforce/worker

Examples of transient

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Such extraction is used in phasevocoder techniques, expanded to more complex methods extracting individual partials, noise and transients.
Thus, in general, stimulus selectivity was broader during the transients, and sharper afterwards, in all three data sets.
The bifurcation theory explains the occurrence of transients and intermittency as the main bifurcation phenomena in random diffeomorphisms.
Such transients reveal a number of key features of the flow produced in this system.
Space-time dislocations appeared to have two functionv in such transients.
Limited computing costs of unsteady simulations provide the possibility of investigating long transients.
He sees brain dynamics as characterized by dynamic transients, spontaneous activity and timevarying inputs, rather than by attractors selected by constant input patterns.
The following case by case analysis of the most representative arcades of the corpus highlights the incidence of particular space configurations on the environmental transients.
The wealth of data collection allowed for two levels of seasonal analysis: environmental transients and environmental performance.
One way to minimize transients would be to reduce the gap length reducing the transit time!, keeping the voltage constant.
Each beamlet would be millimeter scale in radius, so transients would occur on a much shor ter time scale.
A failing action produces neither transients nor bindings, so the fail-continuation has only a commit argument.
As well as forming the brain substrate of the remembered avoidance over this period, these transients must serve two other functions.
After initial transients die out, the solutions are periodic in time, never chaotic.
The dll and dl2 fields are integers that give the number of transients given on completion by actl and act2.
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