persistence
nounEtymology
From Middle French persistance.
- derived from persistance
Definitions
The property of being persistent.
- You've got to admire her persistence. She's asked him out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
- The Thaumatrope was based on the persistence of vision. The disc of card was rotated so rapidly by means of threads attached to it that the eye saw both sides of the card simultaneously.
Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.
- Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation…
Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
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The number of times an operation can be iteratively applied to a number before it reaches…
The number of times an operation can be iteratively applied to a number before it reaches a permanently constant state.
- The persistence of the number 39 under the operation of multiplying the digits of the number is three, because 3x9 = 27, 2x7 = 14, and 1x4 = 4, and no further iterations will change the number again.
The neighborhood
- synonympersistency
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at persistence. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at persistence. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at persistence
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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