short-time transient
1transient — adj Transient, transitory, passing, ephemeral, momentary, fugitive, fleeting, evanescent, short lived are comparable when they mean lasting or staying only for a short time. Transient and transitory are often used as if they were interchangeable; …
2transient — tran•sient [[t]ˈtræn ʃənt, ʒənt, zi ənt[/t]] adj. 1) not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory 2) lasting only a short time; existing briefly; temporary: transient authority[/ex] 3) staying only a short time: transient guests at a… …
3transient — I. adjective Etymology: Latin transeunt , transiens, present participle of transire to cross, pass by, from trans + ire to go more at issue Date: 1599 1. a. passing especially quickly into and out of existence ; transitory < transient beauty > …
4transient — tran|si|ent1 [ˈtrænziənt US ˈtrænʃənt] adj formal [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: , present participle of transire to go across , from ire to go ] 1.) continuing only for a short time ▪ transient fashions 2.) working or staying somewhere for… …
5transient — [tran′shənt, tran′sē ənt; tran′zhənt, tran′zē ənt] adj. [L transiens, prp. of transire: see TRANSIT] 1. a) passing away with time; not permanent; temporary; transitory b) passing quickly or soon; fleeting; ephemeral ☆ 2. staying only for a short… …
6transient — tran‧si‧ent [ˈtrænziənt ǁ ˈtrænʆnt] adjective formal only lasting for a short period of time: • Customer loyalty in the health drinks market appears transient at the best of times. * * * transient UK US /ˈtrænziənt/ adjective ► something that is …
7Transient — Tran sient, a. [L. transiens, entis, p. pr. of transire, transitum, to go or pass over. See {Trance}.] 1. Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of… …
8transient — ► ADJECTIVE 1) lasting only for a short time. 2) staying or working in a place for a short time only. ► NOUN ▪ a transient person. DERIVATIVES transience noun transiency noun transiently adverb …
9Time-of-flight mass spectrometry — (TOFMS) is a method of mass spectrometry in which ions are accelerated by an electric field of known strength. [Stephens, W. E., [http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v69/p674/s2 A Pulsed Mass Spectrometer with Time Dispersion] Phys. Rev. , 1946, 69 …
10Time-frequency analysis — is a body of techniques for characterizing and manipulating signals whose component frequencies vary in time, such as transient signals.Whereas the technique of the Fourier transform can be used to obtain the frequency spectrum of a signal whose… …