persistent

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persistent (comparative more persistent, superlative most persistent)

1. Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.

   She has had a persistent cough for weeks.

2. Insistently repetitive.

   There was a persistent knocking on the door.

3. Indefinitely continuous.

   There have been persistent rumours for years.

4. (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.

   Pine cones have persistent scales.

5. (computing) About some data or data structures: existing after the execution of the program. Remaining in existence past the lifetime of the program that creates it.

   Once written to a disk file the data becomes persistent and it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

   This way transient value becomes persistent.

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• persist
• persistence

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