transients

This could cause short term transients from things like passing cars or people lighting cigarettes to produce spikes in temperature readings.

Central Park: Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? « Climate Audit 2007

Interestingly, long term transients such as jump starting a 12V system using a 24V system are also part of the design.

Autoblog Green 2010

Interestingly, long term transients such as jump starting a 12V system using a 24V system are also part of the design.

Autoblog Green Gary Witzenburg 2010

Edge Triggering however can lead to "transients" - that is brief power surges that can confuse the devices on the bus into thinking that data is on the bus when it is not.

unknown title 2009

All the Morgans are there, and Mary Day, and the Gairdners from Augusta, besides a host of what one might call transients, if father was keeping a hotel - friends, acquaintances, and strangers whom the tide of war has stranded in little Washington.

The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865, 1908

Back when the city terminated the lease to C-TRAN for the 7th street transit center, one of the main reasons provided was the volume of what the city described as transients and troublemakers that hung out in the 7th street area.

unknown title 2009

This policy does not cover damage from a cause other than AC power-line transients, except for damage due to telephone line, Local Area Network or CATV transients, which is covered only if the Product offers such protection.

MyLinkVault Newest Links 2009

The presence of voltage kickback spikes, called transients, is a characteristic of electrical supply systems that creates important safety implications.

Reliable Plant Magazine 2009

The residents around here are pretty used to it, and other than looking for odd jobs occasionally, the "transients" usually don't interact with us.

Springdale Springs Back David Wharton 2007

Clinton depended for the most part on "transients"; and, to hold such in subjection, preventing them from indulging in that noisy gaiety to which "transients" are naturally inclined -- just because they are transitory -- the elderly spinster had developed an abnormal solemnity.

Fran 1913