local vs transient

local

adj
  • Holonyms: statal, national, federal, unional, supranational, global 

  • Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism. 

  • Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline. 

  • From or in a nearby location. 

  • Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program. 

  • Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole. 

  • Descended from an indigenous population. 

adv
  • In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc. 

noun
  • A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter. 

  • One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar. 

  • An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors. 

  • A person who lives near a given place. 

  • A locally scoped identifier. 

  • An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published. 

  • A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. 

transient

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

  • A homeless person. 

  • homestay 

  • A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge. 

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

  • Something that is transient. 

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

adj
  • Intermediate. 

  • Occasional; isolated; one-off 

  • having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again. 

  • Passing or disappearing with time; transitory. 

  • Decaying with time, especially exponentially. 

  • Operating beyond itself; having an external effect. 

  • Passing through; passing from one person to another. 

  • Remaining for only a brief time. 

How often have the words local and transient occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )