Persistence Definition
pər-sĭstəns
noun
The act of persisting; stubborn or enduring continuance.
Webster's New World
The quality of being persistent; tenacity.
Webster's New World
The continuance of an effect after the removal of its cause.
Persistence of vision causes visual impressions to continue upon the retina for a brief time.
Webster's New World
(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.
Wiktionary
(meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
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Other Word Forms of Persistence
Noun
Singular:
persistence
Plural:
persistences
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