long vs transient

long

adj
  • Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. 

  • Not short; tall. 

  • Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value. 

  • Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring or tedious or tiring. 

  • Having great duration. 

  • Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location, as weapons fire or landing aircraft. 

  • Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager. 

  • Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position). 

  • Landing beyond the baseline, and therefore deemed to be out. 

  • Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below). 

verb
  • To take a long position in. 

  • To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true). 

adv
  • For a long duration. 

  • Over a great distance in space. 

  • For a particular duration. 

noun
  • An entity with a long position in an asset. 

  • A long-term investment. 

  • A long vowel. 

  • A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. 

  • A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long. 

  • A long syllable. 

transient

adj
  • Passing or disappearing with time; transitory. 

  • Intermediate. 

  • Occasional; isolated; one-off 

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

  • 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. 

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. 

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