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:

Music

• Transient (album), 2004 album by Gaelle
• Transience (Steven Wilson album), 2015 album by British musician Steven Wilson

Science & Engineering

• Transient (acoustics), a high amplitude, short-duration sound at the beginning of a waveform
• Transient (astronomy), an astronomical object or phenomenon of short duration
• Transient (civil engineering), any pressure wave that is short lived
• Transient (computer programming), a property of any element in the system that is temporary
• Transient (oscillation), a short-lived burst of energy caused by a sudden change of state

Other

• "Transience" (short story), by Arthur C. Clarke
• TRANSIENT, a US secret program to intercept Soviet satellite transmissions
• Transients, a term for some homeless people
• "Transients", title short story in the 1993 collection Transients and Other Disquieting Stories by Darrell Schweitzer

See also

• Impermanence, an essential doctrine of Buddhism
• Mono no aware, a feeling of transience in Japanese culture
• Temporality, the linear progression of past, present, and future
• All pages with a title containing transient