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What does transient mean?

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Adjective
  1. Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
  2. Remaining for only a brief time.
  3. (physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
  4. (mathematics) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
  5. Occasional; isolated; one-off
  6. Passing through; passing from one person to another.
  7. (philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
Noun
  1. Something which is transient.
  2. (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
  3. (acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which 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
  5. An unhoused person
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