Persistence

noun

/pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/

Word Frequency: 6.3

Definitions

1.nounThe 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.nounOf 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.nounContinuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).

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