English-Portuguese translations for transient

• transitório
  Mas os momentos históricos são transitórios - não duram para sempre. But historic moments are transient - they do not last forever.
  Senhor Deputado Guerreiro, o senhor deputado interveio uma segunda vez para dizer que a nossa abordagem não deve basear-se em critérios transitórios. Mr Guerreiro, you spoke a second time to urge that our approach should not be based on transient criteria.

Definition of transient

• Passing or disappearing with time; transitory
• Remaining for only a brief time
• Decaying with time, especially exponentially
• Occasional; isolated; one-off
• Intermediate
• Something which is transient
• A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum
• A homeless person

Examples

• a transient pleasure
• a transient view of a landscape
• a transient disease

Related words

• transiently
• transient ischemic attack
• transient luminous events
• transient expression
• transient flow