persistence

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/

Noun

persistence

1. The property of being persistent.

   You've got to admire his persistence. He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.

2. (computer science) Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.

   Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

3. (meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).

Synonyms

• persistency
• See also Thesaurus:obstinacy
• See also Thesaurus:perseverance

Translations

• French: persistance
• German: Ausdauer, Bestand, Beständigkeit
• Italian: perseveranza, persistere
• Portuguese: persistência
• Russian: насто́йчивость
• Spanish: persistenciaperseverancia

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