Adjective

(en adjective)

Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.

She has had a persistent cough for weeks.

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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.

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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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(dated) Prolonged; unstopped.

* 1797 , , J. S. Barr (editor and translator), Barr's Buffon: Buffon's Natural Hi?tory , page 20,

and for the pronunciation of F , a more continued ?ound is nece??ary than for that of any of the con?onants.

* 1819 [1736], (preface), The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature , page 93,

But when the exercise of the virtuous principle is more continued , oftener repeated, and more intense, as it must be in circumstances of danger, temptation, and difficulty of any kind and any degree, this tendency is increased proportionably, and a more confirmed habit is the consequence.

* 1820 , A. P. Wilson Philip, A Treatise on Fevers: Including the Various Species of Simple and Eruptive Fevers , page 57,

Instead of becoming more continued , intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable.

Uninterrupted.