Noun

(en noun)

conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something

A public stage-coach. (19th century, now used only in reference to France or other European countries including Great Britain.)

* 1818 , , Volume 1, Chapter V:

Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.

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(legal, Scotland) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

Noun

(en noun)

The property of being persistent.

You've got to admire his persistence . He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.

(computer science) Of data, continuing to exist after the execution of the program.

Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence : it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

(meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).