Persistent
/pɚˈsɪstənt/ adj
adj ·Very common ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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 Lasting past maturity without falling off.
"Pine cones have persistent scales."
- 5 Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
"Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program."
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- 6 Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
- 7 non-transient.
Adjective
- 1 never-ceasing wordnet
- 2 continually recurring to the mind wordnet
- 3 retained; not shed wordnet
- 4 stubbornly unyielding wordnet
Example
More examples"After a streak of bad luck, a persistent gambler will be forced to play for high stakes."
Etymology
From Latin persistentem, present participle of persistō (“continue steadfastly”). By surface analysis, persist + -ent.