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persistent
English
Etymology
From Latin persist?ns, present participle of persist? (“to continue steadfastly”). Synchronically analyzable as persist +? -ent.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /p??s?st?nt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??s?st?nt/
- Hyphenation: per?sis?tent
Adjective
persistent (comparative more persistent, superlative most persistent)
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- She has had a persistent cough for weeks.
- Insistently repetitive.
- There was a persistent knocking on the door.
- Indefinitely continuous.
- There have been persistent rumours for years.
- (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- Pine cones have persistent scales.
- (computing) 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.
- (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- pinsetters, presentist, prettiness, serpentist
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin persist?ns.
Adjective
persistent (masculine and feminine plural persistents)
- persistent
Derived terms
- persistentment
Related terms
- persistència
- persistir
Further reading
- “persistent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “persistent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “persistent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “persistent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: persiste, persistes
Verb
persistent
- third-person plural present indicative of persister
- third-person plural present subjunctive of persister
Latin
Verb
persistent
- third-person plural future active indicative of persist?
Romanian
Etymology
From French persistant.
Adjective
persistent m or n (feminine singular persistent?, masculine plural persisten?i, feminine and neuter plural persistente)
- persistent
Declension
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endurantism
English
Etymology
endurant +? -ism
Noun
endurantism (uncountable)
- (philosophy) The theory that material objects are persistent three-dimensional individuals wholly present at every moment of their existence.
See also
- perdurantism
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