persistence

English

Etymology

From Middle French persistance

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/

Noun

persistence (countable and uncountable, plural persistences)

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

property of being persistent

• Arabic: إِلْحَاح‎ m (ʾilḥāḥ)
• Catalan: persistència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 坚持 (zh)

• Czech: perzistence f, vytrvalost (cs) f
• Dutch: doorzettingsvermogen (nl) n
• Finnish: sitkeys (fi)
• French: persistance (fr)
• German: Ausdauer (de) f, Bestand (de) m, Beständigkeit (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐπιμονή f (epimonḗ)

• Italian: perseveranza (it) f, persistere (it) m
• Latin: pervicācia f
• Maori: hohotatanga, pāuaua

• Portuguese: persistência (pt) f
• Romanian: persistență (ro) f
• Russian: насто́йчивость (ru) f (nastójčivostʹ), упо́рство (ru) n (upórstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: упо́рно̄ст f

  Roman: upórnōst (sh) f

• Spanish: persistencia (es)perseverancia (es)
• Telugu: పట్టుదల (te) (paṭṭudala)
• Turkish: devamlılık (tr), süreklilik (tr)