ephemeron

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐφήμερον (ephḗmeron), neuter form of ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros).

noun ephemerons · ephemera

Something short-lived or transitory. Ah!—so frail are we— So like the brief ephemeron that wheels Its momentary round, we scarce can weep Our own bereavements, ere we haste to share The clay with those we mourn.
A type of weak reference in a garbage collected programming language that does not permit an object to be kept alive by its finalizer. Beyond type safety, OCaml has several features that closely interact with the garbage collector. These include weak references, finalisers, ephemerons, and lazy values, whose semantics will have to be preserved with the new GC so as to not break programs that use those features.

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"ephemeron." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ephemeron. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"ephemeron." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ephemeron.

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@misc{ephemeron_2026,
  title = {ephemeron},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ephemeron},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}