Dictionary Definition
persistent adj
1 never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the
drums" [syn: relentless, unrelenting]
2 continually recurring to the mind; "haunting
memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a
haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy [syn: haunting]
3 retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain
attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes" [syn:
lasting] [ant: caducous]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
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.
- About some data or data structures: existing after the execution of
the program. Remaining in
existence past the
lifetime of the program that creates it.
- Once written to a disk file the data becomes persistent and it
will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
- This way transient value becomes persistent.
- Once written to a disk file the data becomes persistent and it
will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
Related terms
Translations
refusing to give up
- Hebrew: עקשן (akshán)
- Japanese: 頑固な, 固執した, 不屈の
- Kurdish:
- Polish: uporczywy, bezustanny, ciągły
insistently repetitive
- Hebrew: מתמיד (matmíd)
- Japanese: しつこい, 執拗な
- Kurdish:
- Polish: bezustanny, uporczywy
indefinitely continuous
- Japanese: 長引く, 持続性の, いつまでも続く
- Polish: ciągły, nieustanny
botany: lasting past maturity without falling
off
computing: existing after the execution of the
program
- Polish: trwały
Extensive Definition
Persistent may relate to:
- Persistent Systems, a software company based in Pune, India
- Persistent data structure, a data structure in computing which preserves the previous version of itself when it is modified
- Persistent organic pollutant, an organic compound that is resistant to degradation and persists in the environment
- Persistent Trillium (Trillium persistens), a flowering plant
- Persistent Uniform Resource Locator, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that persists over time
- Persistent world, a type of virtual world
- Persistent infection, referring to an ongoing and long-lasting infection
See also
- Persistence disambiguation page
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abiding, accordant, adherent, adhesive, age-long, aged, alike, ancient, antique, archaic, assiduous, automatic, balanced, beaten, booming, bound, bound and determined,
bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bullheaded, changeless, chronic, clamant, clamorous, clingy, committed, consistent, consonant, constant, continual, continuing, continuous, correspondent, crying, decided, decisive, dedicated, definite, demanding, determined, devoted, diligent, diuturnal, dogged, draining, durable, earnest, echoic, echoing, enduring, equable, equal, even, evergreen, exacting, exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, faithful, fast, firm, fixed, flat, frequent, frozen, gluey, glutinous, grasping, growling, gummy, habitual, hackneyed, hardy, haunting, homogeneous, immobile, immutable, importunate, inalterable, incessant, indefatigable, indelible, indomitable, industrious, inflexible, insistent, instant, intact, interminable, intransient, invariable, inveterate, invincible, inviolate, lasting, level, lingering, long-lasting,
long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, loud, loyal, macrobiotic, measured, mechanical, methodic, monolithic, nagging, never-tiring, obdurate, obsessive, obstinate, of a piece, of long
duration, of long standing, ordered, orderly, patient, patient as Job,
perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, pressing, purposeful, quiescent, rapt, reboant, rebounding, recurrent, recurring, reechoing, regular, relentless, remaining, repercussive, repetitive, resolute, resolved, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory, rigid, robotlike, routine, rumbling, sedulous, self-adhesive,
sempervirent,
serious, sincere, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, smooth, solid, sounding, stable, static, stationary, staunch, staying, steadfast, steady, stereotyped, stickable, sticking, sticky, stubborn, sustained, systematic, tacky, taxing, tenacious, thundering, tireless, torpid, tough, trite, unabating, unaltered, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, unconquerable, undamped, undaunted, undestroyed, undeveloped, undeviating, undifferentiated,
undiscouraged,
undiversified,
undrooping, undying, unending, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unforgettable, uniform, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unruffled, unshakable, unshifting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, urgent, utterly attentive,
viscid, vital, weariless, well-trodden,
well-worn, wholehearted