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Dictionary: per·sis·tence   (pər-sĭs'təns, -zĭs'-) pronunciation
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  1. The act of persisting.
  2. The state or quality of being persistent; persistency.
  3. Continuance of an effect after the cause is removed: persistence of vision.

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(1) In a CRT, the time a phosphor dot remains illuminated after being energized. Long-persistence phosphors reduce flicker, but generate ghost-like images that linger on screen for a fraction of a second.

(2) In object technology, the storage of an object on a disk or other permanent storage device. See persistent data and persistent name.

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noun

  1. The state or quality of being insistent: insistence, insistency, perseverance, persistency. See continue/stop/pause.
  2. Uninterrupted existence or succession: continuance, continuation, continuity, continuum, duration, endurance, persistency. See continue/stop/pause.

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IN BRIEF: The act of continuing, regardless of obstacles Also: The property of a continuous and connected period of time.

pronunciation Energy and persistence conquer all things. — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

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