transientformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

continuing for less time than usual
shortHe received a short jail sentence.
quickI need to make a quick phone call - I'll be right back.
briefWe had a brief chat this morning.
short and sweetThe business meeting was short and sweet.
momentaryIt was just a momentary lapse in judgment - I won't do it again.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Temporary
be a nine days' wonderidiom
casual
casually
eddy
ephemeral
fugacious
fugitive
here
here today, gone tomorrowidiom
impermanence
non-established
placeholder
pro tem
provisional
provisionary
sticking plaster
transience
transient
transiently
transitorily

transitory | American Dictionary

transitory
adjective[ not gradable ]
 fmlus/ˈtræn·zɪˌtɔr·i, -ˌtoʊr·i/
not permanent; temporary:
the transitory nature of life

transitory | Business English

transitory
adjective
uk /ˈtrænsɪtəri/us
only lasting for a short period of time:
A growing proportion of the population are in a transitory stage between paid employment and old age.
transitory factors/issues
a transitory phase/period

Examples of transitory

transitory
Our model generates time series as the sum of a latent random walk with drift and occasional large transitory movements driven by a regime-switching process.
Without this network integration, it is unlikely that these transitory laborers had much linguistic influence on the emergent variety.
In the classical world merchants did not possess the prerequisites for citizenship; their property was mobile, not fixed, their wealth transitory, not permanent.
The costs of disinflation are immediate but transitory; the benefits of the disinflation are permanent but delayed.
These moments occupy marginal, transitory social spaces where the identities, relationships, and norms of everyday behavior are loosened.
From the perspective of the nation-state and historical geography, it is difficult to isolate what are essentially moveable and transitory aspects.
Therefore, most cases are considered to be transitory and accidental infections.
In other words, new information induces a change in share prices which is not transitory.
They may remain rounded for long periods of time or assume an elongate1 or plump piriform shape which is usually more or less transitory.
The remaining 62 % of the variance in life satisfaction could be attributed to unique environmental factors, both persistent and transitory, plus measurement error.
Transitory states in relaxing ecosystems of land bridge islands.
Sufism seeks both to suppress the idea of aggressive materialism confined to this transitory world and to elevate the spiritual quality inherent in people.
These conclusions all are consequences of the association between current and transitory income.
This is the nature of the transitory dynamics characterizing the system.
Only then could expression shed its reliance on transitory, circumstantial theories like associationalism and uncover its natural foundation.
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