persistence Synonyms & Antonyms
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Persistence as a Noun
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.
Persistence in a Sentence
You've got to admire her persistence. She's asked him out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
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.
You've got to admire his persistence. He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
Word Forms & Grammar
persistence (countable and uncountable, plural persistences)
Words That Rhyme With Persistence
Origin of Persistence
From Middle French persistance, from persistant, from Latin persistēns, from persistō. By surface analysis, persist + -ence.
Persistence in Brief
| Part of speech | noun |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/ |
| Meaning | The property of being persistent |
| Plural | persistences |