Transience
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Transience means passing with time or is the state of being brief and short-lived.
Transience or transient may also refer to:
- Transient (acoustics)
- Transient (astronomy), synonym for transient astronomical event
- Transient (civil engineering)
- Transient (computer programming)
- Transient (oscillation), a short-lived burst of energy
- Transient laborer, a type of temporary laborer
- Transient state
- "Transience" (short story), by Arthur C. Clarke
See also
- Homelessness
- Impermanence, an essential doctrine of Buddhism
- Temporality
- Mono no aware, a feeling of transience in Japanese culture