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SHORT-LIVED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lasting a very short time
Example:
fugacious blossoms
Synonyms:
ephemeral; fugacious; passing; short-lived; transient; transitory
Classified under:
Similar:
impermanent; temporary (not permanent; not lasting)
Context examples:
The chemical elements in these grains are forged inside stars and are scattered across the cosmos when the stars die, most spectacularly in supernova explosions, the final fate of short-lived, massive stars.
(Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars, ESO)
Also, while other gases such as the introduction of chloroflorocarbons or other fluorine-based compounds have been proposed to raise the atmospheric temperature, these gases are short-lived and would require large-scale manufacturing processes.
(Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology, NASA)
Short-lived, or "transient," X-ray sources like ULX-4 are far more rare, so a single dramatic event - like a black hole quickly destroying a small star - might explain the observation.
(NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short-lived water vapor.
(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)
Immunologically important lymphocyte that is not thymus-dependent, is either short-lived and naive or long-lived and of memory phenotype, and resembles the bursa-derived lymphocyte of birds in that it is responsible for the production of immunoglobulins.
(B-Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
She could do justice to the superiority of Lady Russell's motives in this, over those of her father and Elizabeth; she could honour all the better feelings of her calmness; but the general air of oblivion among them was highly important from whatever it sprung; and in the event of Admiral Croft's really taking Kellynch Hall, she rejoiced anew over the conviction which had always been most grateful to her, of the past being known to those three only among her connexions, by whom no syllable, she believed, would ever be whispered, and in the trust that among his, the brother only with whom he had been residing, had received any information of their short-lived engagement.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
In the presence of separately and simultaneously administered caricotamide, tretazicar is converted to the short-lived cytotoxic DNA cross-linking agent dinitrobenzamide by NAD(P)H quinine oxidoreductase 2 (NQO2), resulting in the inhibition of DNA replication and the induction of apoptosis.
(Caricotamide/Tretazicar, NCI Thesaurus)
A study conducted by researchers from the University of Granada and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that rather than living alone, microbial plankton in the ocean come together in complex albeit short-lived communities.
(Study by UGR and MIT reveals microbial plankton live in complex communities, University of Granada)
This is no short-lived aspect—Neptune will remain in direct orbit until June 23, 2020.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
