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transient

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

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

Synonyms:

• able to adapt,
• adaptable,
• adjustable,
• adventurer,
• alpinist,
• alterable,
• alterative,
• arising,
• astronaut,
• board-and-roomer,
• boarder,
• brief,
• brittle,
• camper,
• capricious,
• changeable,
• checkered,
• circumforaneous,
• climber,
• comers and goers,
• coming,
• commuter,
• compact,
• compendious,
• concise,
• corruptible,
• cosmopolite,
• cruiser,
• curt,
• curtal,
• curtate,
• deciduous,
• decurtate,
• disappearing,
• discursive,
• dissolving,
• divagatory,
• drifting,
• dying,
• emanating,
• emanative,
• emanent,
• emergent,
• emerging,
• ephemeral,
• errant,
• evanescent,
• evaporating,
• ever-changing,
• excursionist,
• explorer,
• fading,
• fare,
• fickle,
• fleeting,
• flexible,
• flitting,
• floating,
• fluid,
• fly-by-night,
• flying,
• footloose,
• footloose and fancy-free,
• forthcoming,
• fragile,
• frail,
• fugacious,
• fugitive,
• gadding,
• globe-girdler,
• globe-trotter,
• goer,
• gypsy-like,
• gypsyish,
• hajji,
• impermanent,
• impetuous,
• impulsive,
• inconstant,
• instantaneous,
• insubstantial,
• issuing,
• jet set,
• jet-setter,
• journeyer,
• kaleidoscopic,
• landloping,
• lessee,
• little,
• lodger,
• low,
• malleable,
• many-sided,
• mariner,
• meandering,
• melting,
• metamorphic,
• migrational,
• migratory,
• mobile,
• modifiable,
• momentaneous,
• momentary,
• mortal,
• mountaineer,
• movable,
• mutable,
• nomad,
• nomadic,
• nondurable,
• nonpermanent,
• nonuniform,
• palmer,
• passenger,
• passer,
• passerby,
• passing,
• pathfinder,
• paying guest,
• perishable,
• permutable,
• pilgrim,
• pioneer,
• plastic,
• protean,
• proteiform,
• rambling,
• ranging,
• renter,
• resilient,
• roaming,
• roomer,
• roving,
• rubberneck,
• rubbernecker,
• rubbery,
• sailor,
• shifting,
• short,
• short and sweet,
• short-lived,
• short-term,
• sightseer,
• sojourner,
• straggling,
• straphanger,
• straying,
• strolling,
• subject to death,
• succinct,
• summary,
• supple,
• surfacing,
• synoptic,
• temporal,
• temporary,
• temporary lodger,
• tenant,
• tourer,
• tourist,
• trailblazer,
• trailbreaker,
• traipsing,
• transeunt,
• transient guest,
• transitive,
• transitory,
• transmigratory,
• traveler,
• trekker,
• tripper,
• underlessee,
• undurable,
• unenduring,
• unstable,
• vagabond,
• vagrant,
• vanishing,
• variable,
• viator,
• visiting fireman,
• volatile,
• voortrekker,
• voyager,
• voyageur,
• wandering,
• wayfarer,
• world-traveler