Evanescent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Vanishing, disappearing.
  • adj. Ephemeral, momentary, fleeting.
  • adj. Barely there; almost imperceptible.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting.
  • adj. Vanishing from notice; imperceptible.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Vanishing, or apt to vanish or be dissipated, like vapor; passing away; fleeting: as, the pleasures and joys of life are evanescent.
  • Lessening or lessened beyond the reach of perception; impalpable; imperceptible.
  • In natural history, unstable; unfixed; hence, uncertain; unreliable: applied to characters which are not fixed or uniformly present, and therefore are valueless for scientific classification.
  • In entomology, tending to become obsolete in one part; fading out: as, antennal scrobes evanescent posteriorly.
  • In mathematics, infinitesimal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. tending to vanish like vapor
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