Usually means: Fading away; vanishing quickly, transient.
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  1. evanescent: Merriam-Webster
  2. evanescent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. evanescent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. evanescent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. evanescent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Evanescent, evanescent: Wordnik
  7. evanescent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. evanescent: Wiktionary
  9. evanescent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. evanescent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. evanescent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. evanescent: Dictionary.com
  13. evanescent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Evanescent (dermatology), Evanescent (disambiguation), Evanescent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Evanescent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. evanescent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. evanescent: Rhymezone
  18. Evanescent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. evanescent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. evanescent: FreeDictionary.org
  21. evanescent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. evanescent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. evanescent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. evanescent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. evanescent: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. evanescent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. evanescent: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. evanescent: A Word A Day

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Evanescent: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Evanescent: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Disappearing, vanishing.
adjective:  (electromagnetism) Of an oscillating electric or magnetic field: not propagating as an electromagnetic wave but having its energy spatially concentrated in the vicinity of its source.
adjective:  (mathematics) Of a number or value: diminishing to the point of reaching zero as a limit; infinitesimal.
adjective:  Barely there; almost imperceptible.
adjective:  Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.
adjective:  (botany) Of plant parts: shed after a period.

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