persistence
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French persistance
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
persistence (countable and uncountable, plural persistences)
- 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.
- (computer science) Of data, continuing to exist after the execution 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.
- (meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
SynonymsEdit
- persistency
- See also Thesaurus:obstinacy
- See also Thesaurus:perseverance
TranslationsEdit
property of being persistent
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