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Micro vs Persistent - What's the difference?

micro | persistent |

As adjectives the difference between micro and persistent

is that micro is small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified while persistent is obstinately refusing to give up or let go.

As a noun micro

is form of microcomputer|lang=en.

As a verb micro

is to micromanage.

As a proper noun Micro

is a town in North Carolina.

micro

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Small, relatively small; (used to contrast levels of the noun modified).
    • At the micro level he was a good manager. At the macro level he failed.
    Antonyms
    * macro

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, dated)
  • * 1984 , Mike Gerrard, Bryan Skinner, Mr Chips comes home: micros and home education (page 23)
    • If you can possibly afford to spend a few more pounds then you should move up into the next price bracket, where the potential of the home micro starts to be realised.
  • * 1986 , Rachael Smith, Bomb Jack'' (video game review) in ''Your Sinclair issue 5, May 1986
    • So what sort of hero is this bounding, bomb collecting midget? The answer is an arcade hero - and now he's let loose in your micro courtesy of conversion kings, Elite.

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (-)
  • (lb) micromanagement

    • Verb

  • (lb) to micromanage
    • ----

    persistent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
    • She has had a persistent cough for weeks.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.}}
  • Insistently repetitive.
    • There was a persistent knocking on the door.
  • Indefinitely continuous.
    • There have been persistent rumours for years.
  • (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
    • Pine cones have persistent scales.
  • *
    • The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania'' taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and ''Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes.
  • (computing) About some data or data structures: existing after the execution of the program. Remaining in existence past the lifetime of the program that creates it.
    • Once written to a disk file the data becomes persistent and it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
    This way transient value becomes persistent .
  • (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
  • (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.

    • Related terms

    * persist * persistence * persistency * persistently

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