Transient in a sentence as a noun

For example, does anyone on HN know what "transient ischemia" is?

> And it feels most like a mining town, in that it’s disproportionately young men coming in, and they’re transient.

It's an image that people enjoy looking at, and it's right there for everyone to see - touchable, fragile, transient.

Sun famously didn't include ECC in their L2 cache, which resulted in transient failures for a number of customers, and they made customers sign an NDA before replacing their parts.

The underwriters also have a responsibility to all involved not to over price the ipo to take advantage of transient demand.

Transient in a sentence as an adjective

You see the transient pleasures of beginnings diminish to nothing in the far future and the enduring rewards of finishing as a steady source of dividends extending out beyond the horizon.

Google doesn't seem to understand that the infrastructure business is fundamentally a trust business: as elastic and transient as the cloud can feel, when choosing a foundation, you're making decisions that must stand for years.

Partly this is due to households who are financially well-situated having options for smoothing out transient cashflow issues which are superior to keeping large amounts of cash in non-productive accounts.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Transient definitions

noun

one who stays for only a short time; "transient laborers"

noun

(physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load

adjective

of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind

See also: transeunt

adjective

lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"

See also: ephemeral passing short-lived transitory fugacious