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Persistence vs Yielding - What's the difference?

persistence | yielding |

As nouns the difference between persistence and yielding

is that persistence is the property of being persistent while yielding is a concession.

As a verb yielding is

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As an adjective yielding is

docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.

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

    yielding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A concession.

    • Derived terms

    * overyielding