persistence
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per·sis·tence
(pər-sĭs'təns, -zĭs'-) 
n.
n.
- 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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persistence
noun
- The state or quality of being insistent: insistence, insistency, perseverance, persistency. See continue/stop/pause.
- 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.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Persistence may refer to:
- Image persistence, in LCD monitors
- Multidrug tolerance, a dormant, persistent state of a bacterial population
- Persistence (computer science), the characteristic of data that outlives the execution of the program that created it
- Persistence (psychology), a personality trait
- Persistence of a discontinuity in geotechnical engineering
- Persistence of a number, a mathematical quality of numbers
- Persistent world, in virtual reality and computer games
- Persistence of vision, a theory on how the illusion of motion in films is achieved
- Persistence of a time series
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