persistent

English

/pɚˈsɪstənt/, /pəˈsɪstənt/

adj
Definitions
  • Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
  • Insistently repetitive.
  • Indefinitely continuous.
  • (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
  • (computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
  • (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
  • (mathematics) non-transient.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persistēns affix from English persist root from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (stand, stay, place, put, be standing, set, stand up).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*steh₂-

Gloss

stand, stay, place, put, be standing, set, stand up

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Kanji

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