persistence

CEFRB2

/pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The quality of continuing despite difficulty or opposition.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • It is nothing that a little persistence and ingenuity can't overcome.

  • She was disgusted at his persistence.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.

  2. The property of being persistent.

  3. The number of times an operation can be iteratively applied to a number before it reaches a permanently constant state.

More examples

In context

  • Your persistence is not appreciated.

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

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

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle French persistance, from persistant, from Latin persistēns, from persistō. By surface analysis, persist + -ence.