Crossword clues for transience
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transience \Tran"sience\, Transiency \Tran"sien*cy\, n. The quality of being transient; transientness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1745, from transient + -ence. Related: Transiency (1650s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting. 2 An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.
WordNet
n. an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying [syn: transiency, transitoriness]
the attribute of being brief or fleeting [syn: brevity, briefness]
Wikipedia
Transience means passing with time or is the state of being brief and short-lived.
Transience or transient may also refer to:
- Transient (acoustics)
- Transient (astronomy), synonym for transient astronomical event
- Transient (civil engineering)
- Transient (computer programming)
- Transient (oscillation), a short-lived burst of energy
- Transient laborer, a type of temporary laborer
- Transient state
- "Transience" (short story), by Arthur C. Clarke
"Transience" is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke.
Probably the most interesting aspect of this story is its opening part - reluctant exploration of the surrounding world by a little child in a way that reminds of the first story in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The story is told through the medium of three children playing at about the same physical location on Earth, but across vast gulfs of time.
It is collected in The Other Side of the Sky and The Nine Billion Names of God.
Usage examples of "transience".
Schacter catalogs them as transience, persistence, absentmindedness, blocking, bias, misattribution, and suggestibility.
When diversity, however, converges with transience and novelty, we rocket the society toward an historical crisis of adaptation.
THE PACE OF LIFE 36 People of the Future 37 Durational Expectancy 42 The Concept of Transience 44 PART TWO: Transience 49 Chapter 4.
Transience necessarily affects the durational expectancies with which persons approach new situations.
Transience, then, the forcible abbreviation of man's relationships, is not merely a condition of the external world.
He watched the snowflakes fall as he listened to the music, and he was filled with mono no aware for the transience of beauty in the world.
Simultaneously, the organizations needed to control technology will shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future.
Let us, therefore, press ahead in our exploration of life in high transience society.
These involve attempts to control the rates of transience, novelty and diversity in our milieu.
So smelled he even then, and so smells he and breathes he today when, injecting transience and love of life into the atmosphere along with, and I might say enveloped in, his aroma, he descends upon me on visiting days, compelling Bruno to fling open every available door and window the moment Klepp, after elaborate farewells and promises to come again, has left the room.
The chair disintegrated into powdery wood meal, rose up in a cloud which proliferated, a sumptuously illumined monument to transience, and settled on Grandmother Matern, who had not, as might be supposed, taken her cue from the chair and turned to grandmotherly dust.