persistent
Pronunciation: /pəˈsɪstənt/
The English word “persistent” has 7 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Insistently repetitive.
- Indefinitely continuous.
- Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
- non-transient.
Etymology
From Latin persistentem, present participle of persistō (“continue steadfastly”). By surface analysis, persist + -ent.
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