persistence
English
Etymology
From Middle French persistance
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/
Noun
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, 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.
- (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
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