- The act of persisting.
- The state or quality of being persistent; persistency.
- 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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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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