What is "transients"

Usage examples of "transients".

Considerable thought and care had been taken to approximate planetary surroundings, to make residents and transients forget the hostile conditions outside.

Stationers must be used to seeing Transients far more bizarrely dressed than his plain casual Athosian shirt, jacket, trousers, and shoes, but for a moment he wished for the doctor's whites he wore at the Rep Center, all clean and crisp from the laundry, that always lent him their reassuring sense of official identity.

He trusted devoutly that Ecobranch did not dispose of diseased human transients in the same cavalier fashion.

Safe house, Ethan decided, must be a generic espionage term for any hideout, for Cee took him not to a home but to a cheap hostel reserved for transients with Stationer work permits.

I don’t want the transients in Durringham a moment longer than necessary.

She wondered if Ford's presence was to reassure the transients that they were indeed human rather than extensions of some computer.

The transients also would find overnight shelter before being sped on their way in the morning.

I got some funny transients, like metal pieces beating against each other.