persistent

Adjective Satellite

• never-ceasing
• continually recurring to the mind; ; - Claudia Cassidy
• stubbornly unyielding; ; ; ; - T.S.Eliot

Adjective

• retained; not shed
  • "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"
  • "the persistent gills of fishes"

Adj

• Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
• Insistently repetitive.
• Indefinitely continuous.
• Lasting past maturity without falling off.
• Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
• Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
• non-transient.

Examples

• Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
• Pine cones have persistent scales.
• She has had a persistent cough for weeks.
• There have been persistent rumours for years.
• There was a persistent knocking on the door.

Synonyms

dogged, dour, haunting, lasting, pertinacious, relentless, tenacious, unrelenting, unyielding

Antonyms

caducous

Related Words

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