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).

Noun

(en-noun)

The tendency to attract.

The feeling of being attracted.

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An event or location that has a tendency to attract visitors.

(chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.