Transience
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Transience means passing with time or is the state of being brief and short-lived. Something which has the property of transience is said to be transient, or often simply a transient or transient state.
Examples include:
- Transient (acoustics)
- Transient astronomical event, a phenomenon that is relatively short-lived by astronomical standards
- Transient state (chemical engineering)
- Transient (civil engineering)
- Transient (computer programming)
- Transient, a term used to describe the wandering poor, better known as a homeless person, bum, hobo, etc.
- Transient (oscillation), a short-lived burst of energy in a system
- A transient laborer, a type of temporary laborer
- Mono no aware, a feeling of transience in Japanese culture
- Transient screen, an element in user interface design.
- Transience (short story), a short story by Arthur C. Clarke
[edit] See also
- Impermanence, an essential doctrine of Buddhism
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