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Prolong vs Persistence - What's the difference?

prolong | persistence |

As a verb prolong

is (label) to extend in space or length.

As a noun persistence is

the property of being persistent.

prolong

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (label) To extend in space or length.
  • (label) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged . In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
  • (label) To lengthen temporally; to put off to a distant time; to postpone.

    • Derived terms

    * prolongable * prolongation * prolonger * prolongment

    References

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    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