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| 1. | not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory. |
| 2. | lasting only a short time; existing briefly; temporary: transient authority. |
| 3. | staying only a short time: the transient guests at a hotel. |
| 4. | Philosophy. transeunt. |
| 5. | a person or thing that is transient, esp. a temporary guest, boarder, laborer, or the like. |
| 6. | Mathematics.
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| 7. | Physics.
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| 8. | Electricity. a sudden pulse of voltage or current. |
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| (of a mental act) producing an effect outside of the mind. |