Technology / Home Audio / Transient: A short-lived aspect of a signal, such as the attack and decay of musical tones. A speaker that can react quickly to rapid changes in the music is said to have good 'transient response.'
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Transient Verb Synonyms: transitory, temporary, brief, fleeting, momentary, passing, ephemeral, fugacious, fugitive, evanescent, short-lived, short-term, impermanent, fly-by-night, volatile
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Technology / Home Audio / Transients: A non-repeating sound (such as percussion in music) or an abrupt change of voltage. How a speaker handles transients is a good indicator of its performance. MORE
Lifestyle / College / Transient Visiting Student: Any student who is enrolled at a college other than Greenville Tech who would like to take classes at Greenville Tech and transfer the credit back to the college they attended during the school year i MORE
Technology / Home Audio / Slew Rate: Slew rate measures the ability of a piece of audio equipment to accurately reproduce fast changes in amplitude. Measured in volts per microsecond, this spec is most commonly associated with amplifiers MORE
Science / Psychiatry / Hallucination: false sensory perception in the absence of a real external stimulus. It is perceived as being located in objective space and as having the same realistic qualities as normal perceptions. It is not sub MORE
Science / Geology / Earthquake: The violent oscillatory motion of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves radiating from a fault along which sudden movement has taken place. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Transitus Mundi: The theme of life's ephemeral or transient nature, especially when that thematic exploration ends by suggesting humanity should reject the world or turn its attention away from mundane life and retrea MORE