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Durable vs Persistence - What's the difference?

durable | persistence |

As nouns the difference between durable and persistence

is that durable is a durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year while persistence is the property of being persistent.

As an adjective durable

is able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring.

durable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring.

    • Synonyms

    * permanent

    Antonyms

    * weak * vulnerable * transitory

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (economics) A durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
  • *

    • Antonyms

    * nondurable ----

    persistence

    English

    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).

    • Synonyms

    * persistency * See also * See also