Continuation vs Persistence - What's the difference?
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The act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
(computing) A representation of an execution state of a program at a certain point in time, which may be used at a later time to resume the execution of the program from that point.
(basketball) A successful shot that, despite a foul, is made with a single continuous motion beginning before the foul, and that is therefore valid in certain forms of basketball.
The property of being persistent.
(computer science) Of data, continuing to exist after the execution of the program.
(meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
As nouns the difference between continuation and persistence
is that continuation is the act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation while persistence is the property of being persistent.continuation
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Noun
(wikipedia continuation) (en noun)- the continuation of a story
- The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.
Antonyms
* (act or state of continuing or being continued) termination, discontinuationpersistence
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Noun
(en noun)- You've got to admire his persistence . He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
- Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence : it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.