persistence

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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) Referring to the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics)

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• See also Wikisaurus:obstinacy

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