Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word transcient.

Examples

  • By cutting your toenails, you recognize that you are made up of transcient cells that come and go.

    Mortality and Toenails 2009

  • Second, Cesar Chavez was Chicano and not all Hispanics or Latinos/Latinas come from Mexico or are/were transcient crop workers.

    César, César, bo-Bésar, banana bana fo-Fésar (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Cross-dressing was something transcient to me, something the girls in fiction did for fun before settling down and going back to “normal”.

    GLBT January Mini-Challenge Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

  • Anyway, these transcient fields could easy produce Stark or Zeeman effects.

    Scientific Misconduct « Climate Audit 2005

  • They are prepared to spend billions of pounds on a system which won't work and will, in the process undermine fundamental freedoms in the UK that people have fought and died for, just to extract some transcient and superficial "tough on terrorism" headlines from a media with a short attention span.

    Archive 2004-04-04 2004

  • The girl has moved a little away from him, the flush of "beauty's bright transcient glow" has died out of her face, the hard, angry look has come back.

    A Terrible Secret May Agnes Fleming 1860

  • Temporary employees, employed by staffing firms, are meant to be transcient and hopping between jobs.

    Forbes.com: News Freek Vermeulen 2011

  • Temporary employees, employed by staffing firms, are meant to be transcient and hopping between jobs.

    Forbes.com: News 2011

  • Myspace and facebook have been storing transcient user data in separate memory based clusters for a long time to avoid SCSI disk write blocking, which shows it’s ugly head in the form of CPU context switching polling the memory bus waiting for data.

    Plentyoffish Paid Virtual Goods… « The Paradigm Shift 2008

  • Would to God!’ said she, ‘the dear girl had the small-pox in a mortifying manner: she’d be lovely though in the genteelness of her person and the excellencies of her mind; and more out of danger of suffering from the transcient beauties of countenance.

    Pamela 2006

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.