persistence
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persistence
- /pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/ UK
- /pɚˈsɪstəns/ Canada, US
- /pəˈsɪstəns/ Australia
Rhymes with -ɪstəns
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From Middle French persistance, from persistant, from Latin persistēns, from persistō. By surface analysis, persist + -ence.
noun persistences
- The property of being persistent. You've got to admire her persistence. She's asked him out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
- 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.
- Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
- The number of times an operation can be iteratively applied to a number before it reaches a permanently constant state. The persistence of the number 39 under the operation of multiplying the digits of the number is three, because 3x9 = 27, 2x7 = 14, and 1x4 = 4, and no further iterations will change the number again.
Similar: persistency
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: persistency, tenaciousness, tenacity, perseveration, doggedness, perseverance, pertinacity, continuity, perseverence, persevering, persisting, patience, endurance, resiliency, persist, persevere
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Similar: persistency
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noun property of being persistent
| Español | persistencia, perseverancia |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 固執 koshitsu |
| 中文 | 堅持 /坚持 jiānchí |
| Português | persistência |
| Français | persistance |
| Deutsch | Ausdauer, Bestand, Beständigkeit |
| Italiano | perseveranza, tenacia, persistenza, caparbietà, costanza |
| Română | persistență |
| Русский | насто́йчивость nastójčivostʹ, упо́рство upórstvo |
| العربية | إِلْحَاح ʔilḥāḥ |
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