Persistence vs Protraction - What's the difference?
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The property of being persistent.
(computer science) Of data, continuing to exist after the execution of the program.
(meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
(uncountable) The condition of being protracted
(countable) The act of protracting
(linguistics) The lengthening of a short syllable
(anatomy) An anterior movement on the horizontal plane; The forward movement of the tongue or of a limb
The act of making a plot on paper.
As nouns the difference between persistence and protraction
is that persistence is the property of being persistent while protraction is the condition of being protracted.persistence
English
Noun
(en noun)- You've got to admire his persistence . He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
- Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence : it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
