Dictionary

persistence en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle French persistance, from persistant, from Latin persistēns, from persistō. By surface analysis, persist + -ence.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
   • The Thaumatrope was based on the persistence of vision. The disc of card was rotated so rapidly by means of threads attached to it that the eye saw both sides of the card simultaneously. 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 182:
2. (countable, uncountable) 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.
3. (countable, uncountable) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
4. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Forms

Deriveds

persistence hunter · biopersistence · persistence hunting · nonpersistence · lactase persistence · antipersistence

Synonyms

persistency

Translations (39)

es perseverancia (property of being persistent) · cs perzistence (property of being persistent) · id kegigihan (property of being persistent) · pt persistência (property of being persistent) · ta விடாமுயற்சி (property of being persistent) · tr süreklilik (property of being persistent) · scn pirsistenza (property of being persistent) · te పట్టుదల (property of being persistent) · tr devamlılık (property of being persistent) · it persistenza (property of being persistent) · sh upórnōst (property of being persistent) · ca persistència (property of being persistent) · de Beständigkeit (property of being persistent) · la pervicācia (property of being persistent) · ru насто́йчивость (property of being persistent) · fr persistance (property of being persistent) · bg настойчивост (property of being persistent) · nl doorzettingsvermogen (property of being persistent) · cs vytrvalost (property of being persistent) · bg постоя́нство (property of being persistent) · ru упо́рство (property of being persistent) · it caparbietà (property of being persistent) · ar إِلْحَاح (property of being persistent) · fi sitkeys (property of being persistent) · de Bestand (property of being persistent) · de Ausdauer (property of being persistent) · es persistencia (property of being persistent) · txb stamalñe (property of being persistent) · mi pāuaua (property of being persistent) · ro persistență (property of being persistent) · ja 固執 (property of being persistent) · it perseveranza (property of being persistent) · cmn 堅持 /坚持 (property of being persistent) · mi hohotatanga (property of being persistent) · it tenacia (property of being persistent) · mr चिकाटी (property of being persistent) · sh упо́рно̄ст (property of being persistent) · it costanza (property of being persistent) · grc ἐπιμονή (property of being persistent)