Pursuit vs Persistence - What's the difference?
pursuit | persistence |
The act of pursuing.
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(cycling) A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents.
(legal, obsolete) prosecution
* Fuller
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).
As nouns the difference between pursuit and persistence
is that pursuit is the act of pursuing while persistence is the property of being persistent.pursuit
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Mother
Bayern Munich 2-0 Man City, passage=Not only were Jupp Heynckes' team pacey in attack but they were relentless in their pursuit of the ball once they had lost it, and as the game wore on they merely increased their dominance as City wilted in the Allianz Arena.}}
- That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court.
Derived terms
* curve of pursuit, pursuit curve * in pursuit * individual pursuit * pursuit plane * team pursuitExternal links
* ("pursuit" on Wikipedia)persistence
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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.