persistent
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Definitions ofpersistent
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
Example: "She has had a persistent cough for weeks."
- Insistently repetitive.
Example: "There was a persistent knocking on the door."
- Indefinitely continuous.
Example: "There have been persistent rumours for years."
- Lasting past maturity without falling off.
Example: "Pine cones have persistent scales."
- Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
Example: "Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program."
- Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
- (stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
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