Transience

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Transience or transient may refer to:

• Transient (album), a 2004 album by Gaelle
• Transience (Steven Wilson album), 2015
• Transience (Wreckless Eric album)

• Transient state, when a process variable or variables have been changed and the system has not yet reached a steady state.
• Transient modelling, a way of looking at a process with the primary criterion of time, observing the pattern of changes in the subject being studied over time.
• Transient response, the response of a system to a change from an equilibrium or a steady state.
• Transient (acoustics), a high-amplitude, short-duration sound at the beginning of a waveform
• Transient (astronomy), an astronomical object or phenomenon of short duration
• Transient (civil engineering), any pressure wave that is short lived
• Transient (computer programming), a property of any element in the system that is temporary
• Transient (oscillation), a short-lived burst of energy caused by a sudden change of state
• Transient climate simulation, a mode of running a global climate model (GCM) so that the climate of the model represents a realistic mode of possible change in the real world.

• "Transience" (short story), by Arthur C. Clarke
• TRANSIENT, a US secret program to intercept Soviet satellite transmissions
• Transient, a 2005 short film by Australian director Craig Boreham
• Transients, a term for some homeless people
• "Transients", title short story in the 1993 collection Transients and Other Disquieting Stories by Darrell Schweitzer

• Impermanence, an essential doctrine of Buddhism
• Mono no aware, a feeling of transience in Japanese culture
• Temporality, the linear progression of past, present, and future
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