persistant

Adjective

persistent (comparative more persistent, superlative most persistent)

1. Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
   • She has had a persistent cough for weeks.
2. Insistently repetitive.
   • There was a persistent knocking on the door.
3. Indefinitely continuous.
   • There have been persistent rumours for years.
4. Lasting past maturity without falling off.
   • Pine cones have persistent scales.
5. 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.
6. Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function

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