Look up transience or transient in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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
• All pages with titles containing transient

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Transience.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.