persistent

Meaning of persistent

adjective

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.
Lasting past maturity without falling off.
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.
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.

Information about persistent

It is an adjective.
The plural form of persistent is: persistents.
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Hyphenation of persistent

per-sis-tent

It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
persistent is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

persistent synonyms

Meaning relentless:

relentless, unrelenting

Meaning haunting:

Meaning lasting:

Translation of persistent

Spanish: tenaz, persistente, implacable
French: tenace, persistant
Portuguese: persistente

Anagrams of persistent

pinsetters, presentist, prettiness

Words that rhyme with persistent

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