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persistent
/pɚˈsɪstənt/
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What does persistent mean?
adjective
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Insistently repetitive.
- Indefinitely continuous.
More meanings (4)
adjective
- 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.
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IPA pronunciation
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“Come in,” she said mechanically, for a string in her brain seemed to be pulled by a persistent knocking at the door.
The ugly noises were the occasional footfalls of a policeman and the persistent calling of ducks and geese in the closed market.
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But finally, as always, it is the gentle, persistent wife who has triumphed, and hard husband has been forced to give in.
It is a sort of steady, persistent, overwhelming, endlessly driving downpour, which makes your heart sick, and opens it to dismal forebodings.
Cerebral hemorrhage has often been preceded by dreams of frightful calamities, and intermittent fever is often announced by persistent and terrifying dreams.