Transient vs. Transitional — What's the Difference?

Lasting only for a short time; impermanent

Change from one form, state, style, or place to another.

A person who is staying or working in a place for a short time only.

Change from one subject to another in discourse.

A momentary variation in current, voltage, or frequency.

A word, phrase, sentence, or series of sentences connecting one part of a discourse to another.

Passing with time; transitory

Change from one key or tonality to another.

Remaining in a place only a brief time

A passage connecting two themes or sections, usually changing to a new key or tonality.

(Physics) Decaying with time, especially as a simple exponential function of time.

(Genetics) A point mutation in which a pyrimidine is replaced by another pyrimidine, or a purine is replaced by another purine.

One that is transient, especially a hotel guest or boarder who stays for only a brief time.

(Sports) The process of changing from defense to offense or offense to defense without a stoppage in play, as in basketball or hockey.

(Physics) A transient phenomenon or property, especially a transient electric current.

A period during childbirth that precedes the expulsive phase of labor, characterized by strong uterine contractions and nearly complete cervical dilation.

Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

To make a transition.

Remaining for only a brief time.

(Sports) To change from defense to offense or offense to defense without a stoppage in play.

(physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.

Of, or relating to a transition

Having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.

Temporary; pending the implementation of something new

Occasional; isolated; one-off

Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.

Passing through; passing from one person to another.

Of or relating to or characterized by transition;

(music) Intermediate.

(philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.

Something that is transient.

(physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.

(acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.

A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.

A homeless person.

A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.

(Philippines) homestay

Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure.

Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view of a landscape.

Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a transient guest; transient boarders.

That which remains but for a brief time.

One who stays for only a short time;

(physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load

Of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind

Enduring a very short time;