persistence

Etymology

From Middle French persistance

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/

Noun

persistence (countable and uncountable, plural persistences)

1. The property of being persistent.

   You've got to admire his persistence. He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.

2. (computer science) Of data, continuing to exist after the execution of the program.

   Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

3. (meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).