persistence
Pronunciation: /pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/
The English word “persistence” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- The property of being persistent.
- Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the 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.
Etymology
From Middle French persistance, from persistant, from Latin persistēns, from persistō. By surface analysis, persist + -ence.
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