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Persistence vs Prevalence - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between persistence and prevalence

is that persistence is the property of being persistent while prevalence is the quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension.

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

    prevalence

    English

    (wikipedia prevalence) (Webster 1913)

    Noun

  • The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension.
  • (epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.

    • Related terms

    * prevail * prevalent

    See also

    * incidence

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