transitoryformal

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
ephemerality
fugitive
here
here today, gone tomorrowidiom
impermanence
impermanency
placeholder
pro tem
provisional
provisionary
provisory
sticking plaster
transient
transiently
transitorily
transitory

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Short in time

ephemeral | American Dictionary

ephemeral
adjective
us/ɪˈfem·ər·əl/
lasting for only a short time:
ephemeral fame

Examples of ephemeral

ephemeral
The remaining two tests test the array data structures in simple ephemeral and partially persistent situations.
The representative makes visible and concrete something that is by its very nature immaterial, ephemeral, and undetermined.
Therefore, white-vented mynas probably preferred the green patches among residential buildings, as this may have allowed them to more efficiently exploit ephemeral anthropogenic food sources.
A small, possibly ephemeral caldera lake is a likely source.
By contrast, imperative data structures are typically ephemeral: an update destroys the old version of the data structure.
In this case, the parasite increases the permanence of a habitat that would normally be too ephemeral to support many epibionts.
The congressional response to the three elections conferring a mandate is ephemeral.
There was an early realisation that radio transmissions, which are ephemeral, needed to be supported by material in a more permanent form in other media.
The ephemeral nature of participation resides in the very conditions that have made increased participation both possible and necessary.
Every sound is in essence an ephemeral entity, possessing nothing perpetual but our memory of it.
These are linked to the size of the web, its diversity, ephemeral quality, interactivity, and multimodality.
Oddly, the idea that live performance must be saved from disappearance is not held as a position incompatible with the valuation of performance as ephemeral.
Long and narrow arcades provide the most progressive and sustained thermal transients, whereas wide or short arcades produce rather abrupt and ephemeral ones.
Risk, uncertainty and competition have produced insecure, ephemeral, project-based collaboration.
Furthermore, there is obviously a tendency to begin the more 'official' historiography of marginal musics with more ephemeral media than the printed word.
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