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:

• Transient (acoustics)
• Transient (astronomy), synonym for transient astronomical event
• Transient (civil engineering)
• Transient (computer programming)
• Transient (oscillation), a short-lived burst of energy
• Transient laborer, a type of temporary laborer
• Transient state
• "Transience" (short story), by Arthur C. Clarke

See also

• Homelessness
• Impermanence, an essential doctrine of Buddhism
• Temporality
• Mono no aware, a feeling of transience in Japanese culture