Repetition vs Persistence - What's the difference?
repetition | persistence |
The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
(lb): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep'. A group of ' repetitions is a set.
To petition again.
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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).
As nouns the difference between repetition and persistence
is that repetition is the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated while persistence is the property of being persistent.As a verb repetition
is to petition again.repetition
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) repetitionem'' (accusative singular of ''repetitio ).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning , losing again and again.
Anagrams
* ----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.
