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Persistent

//pɚˈsɪstənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.

    "She has had a persistent cough for weeks."

  2. 2
    Insistently repetitive.

    "There was a persistent knocking on the door."

  3. 3
    Indefinitely continuous.

    "There have been persistent rumours for years."

  4. 4
    Lasting past maturity without falling off.

    "Pine cones have persistent scales."

  5. 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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  1. 6
    Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
  2. 7
    non-transient.
Adjective
  1. 1
    never-ceasing wordnet
  2. 2
    continually recurring to the mind wordnet
  3. 3
    retained; not shed wordnet
  4. 4
    stubbornly unyielding wordnet

Etymology

From Latin persistentem, present participle of persistō (“continue steadfastly”). By surface analysis, persist + -ent.

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