fleeting

Meaning

Adj

Passing quickly; of short duration.

Noun

An automatic operation mode of an absolute signal that reserves a route for several trains following one another, without the need for dispatcher to re-set the route for each train.

Verb

present participle and gerund of fleet

fleet

• Noun
• Verb
• Adj

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Synonyms

ephemeral

transient

passing

momentary

evanescent

transitory

temporary

fugacious

short-lived

brief

fugitive

faint

momentaneous

momentarily

occasional

odor

pale

periodic

shortlived

smell

👃

spasmodic

transitional

transpiring

vain

whiff

vapourish

like a bubble on liquid

vaporific

vaporish

vapourific

undurable

volatilizable

quick-fading

volatilisable

airy

momentany

convertible

deciduous

empty

episodic

evaporable

fickle

fly

✈️

impermanent

interim

intermittent

light

miserable

moving

Translations

éphémère

fugaz

fugace

flüchtig

effimero

efímero

vorübergehend

volatile

caduco

pasajero

vergänglich

fugitif

fugaz

fuggevole

efêmero

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfliːtɪŋ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: fleten

Inherited from Old English: flēotan

In summary

From Middle English fleten (“to float”), from Old English flēotan (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. By surface analysis, fleet + -ing.