喜樂美語
  1. 1短暫的；過境的；(名詞)流浪者

    Lasting only for a short time, then passing or disappearing — a transient feeling, transient pain, transient popularity. It can also describe a person who moves from place to place and doesn't stay long anywhere, like a transient worker who travels for short jobs, or, more , a homeless person moving between places.

From the word’s history

From Latin transiēns, present participle of trānsīre 'to go over, to pass'.

借自拉丁文 trānsīre「越過、經過」的現在分詞。

Wiktionary

組成From Latin 'transire' — trans- (across) + 'ire' (to go).

同家族的字

  • transitshares the same Latin root 'transire', meaning to go across
  • transitionshares the same Latin root

原始詞典資料16 筆記錄

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transientadj/ˈtɹan.zi.ənt/

  • 1

    Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

    • a transient pleasure
    • this transient world
  • 2

    Remaining for only a brief time.

    • a transient view of a landscape
    • a transient disease
  • 3

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsDecaying with time, especially exponentially.

  • 4

    engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesunsteady, [[nonsteady|non-]-steady-state]].

  • 5

    mathematicsscienceshaving a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.

  • 6

    Occasional; isolated; one-off

  • 7

    Passing through; passing from one person to another.

  • 8

    entertainmentlifestylemusicIntermediate.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    human-sciencesphilosophysciencesOperating beyond itself; having an external effect.

transientnoun/ˈtɹan.zi.ənt/

  • 1

    Something that is transient.

  • 2

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.

  • 3

    A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.

  • 4

    A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.

    • Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.
  • 5

    A homeless person.

  • 6

    computingengineeringmathematicsA module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.

    • The overhead in loading transients is a big time-waster.
    • These areas function to single thread supervisor routines that are loaded as needed. The Logical Transient Area (LTA) processes $$B transients.
  • 7

    A homestay.

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