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Webster 1828 Edition


Persistence

PERSIST'ENCE

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Noun.
The state of persisting; steady pursuit of what is undertaken; perseverance in a good or evil course, more generally in that which is evil and injurious to others, or unadvisable.
1.
Obstinacy; contumacy.

Definition 2024


persistence

persistence

English

Noun

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

Synonyms

  • persistency
  • See also Wikisaurus:obstinacy
  • See also Wikisaurus:perseverance

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