Meaning & use
transients
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People who stay in a place only briefly or move frequently from place to place, without a permanent home.
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The shelter mainly serves transients passing through the city rather than long-term residents.
Hotel managers track the ratio of transients to long-term guests each season.
A note on using this word
In physics and engineering, 'transient' also describes a brief, short-lived signal or disturbance, an unrelated but common technical sense.
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2. noun
Brief or short-lived phenomena, such as electrical signals that occur momentarily before a steady state is reached.
Engineers designed the circuit to suppress voltage transients.
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