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

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

Translations

property of being persistent

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 坚持 (cmn)

• Czech: perzistence (cs) f, vytrvalost (cs) f
• Dutch: doorzettingsvermogen (nl) n
• French: persistance (fr)
• German: Ausdauer (de) f
• Italian: perseveranza (it) f, persistere (it) m

• Russian: настойчивость (ru) (nastójčivost') f, упорство (ru) (upórstvo) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: упо́рно̄ст (sh) f

  Roman: upórnōst (sh) f

• Spanish: persistencia (es)perseverancia (es)
• Telugu: పట్టుదల (te) (paTTudala)
• Turkish: devamlılık (tr), süreklilik (tr)