Persistence










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Persistence \Per*sist"ence\, Persistency \Per*sist"en*cy\, n.
[See Persistent.]

1. The quality or state of being persistent; staying or
continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense,
doggedness; obstinacy.
[1913 Webster]


2. The continuance of an effect after the cause which first
gave rise to it is removed; as:
(a) (Physics) The persistence of motion.
(b) (Physiol.) Visual persistence, or persistence of the
visual impression; auditory persistence, etc.
[1913 Webster]
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persistence
n 1: the property of a continuous and connected period of time
[syn: continuity, persistence]

2: persistent determination [syn: doggedness, perseverance,
persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness,
pertinacity]

3: the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating
behavior; "his perseveration continued to the point where it
was no longer appropriate" [syn: perseverance,
persistence, perseveration]
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persistence


1. A property of a programming language where
created objects and variables continue to exist and retain
their values between runs of the program.


2. The length of time a phosphor dot on the screen
of a cathode ray tube will remain illuminated after it has
been energised by the electron beam. Long-persistence
phosphors reduce flicker, but generate ghost-like images that
linger on screen for a fraction of a second.

(1994-11-09)

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persistence [pəsistəns]
Ausdauer; Fortdauer; Nachleuchten

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persistence

kitartás
konokság
szívósság
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persistence

Ausdauer f; Beharrlichkeit f; Langlebigkeit f
persistence

Fortdauer f; Nachleuchten n
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170 Moby Thesaurus words for "persistence":
abidingness, accordance, adhesiveness, age, antiquity, application,
assiduity, assiduousness, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, calm,
changelessness, cohesiveness, commitment, concentration,
consistency, consonance, constancy, continualness, continuance,
continuation, continuity, correspondence, course, decidedness,
decision, decisiveness, dedication, defeat of time,
defiance of time, definiteness, demandingness, determinateness,
determination, determinedness, devotion, diligence, diuturnity,
dogged perseverance, doggedness, durability, durableness, duration,
earnestness, endurance, engrossment, equability, equanimity,
equilibrium, evenness, exigency, extension, fidelity, firmness,
fixedness, frozenness, gluiness, glutinosity, grit, gumminess,
hardening, homogeneity, immobility, immovability, immovableness,
immutability, importunacy, importunateness, importunity,
indefatigability, industriousness, industry, insistence,
insistency, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, lastingness,
lengthening, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness,
longevity, loyalty, maintenance, monolithism, obduracy, obstinacy,
patience, patience of Job, perdurability, perennation, permanence,
permanency, perpetualness, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance,
persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, pluck,
plugging, preoccupation, pressingness, pressure, progress,
progression, prolongation, protraction, purpose, purposefulness,
pursuance, quiescence, relentlessness, repetition, resoluteness,
resolution, resolve, resolvedness, retention, rigidity, run,
sedulity, sedulousness, self-will, seriousness, sincerity,
single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, snugness,
solidity, stability, stamina, standing, stasis, staying power,
steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness,
straight course, stubbornness, survival, survivance,
sustained action, sustenance, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity,
tightness, tirelessness, torpor, total commitment, toughness,
unchangeability, unchangingness, uniformity, uninterrupted course,
unity, unremittingness, unruffledness, unswerving attention,
urgency, viscidity, viscosity, way, will



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