Persistence vs. Persistance — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Persistence or Persistance
How to spell Persistence?
Persistence
Correct Spelling
Persistance
Incorrect Spelling
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Persistence Definitions
The act of persisting.
The state or quality of being persistent; persistency.
Continuance of an effect after the cause is removed
Persistence of vision.
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.
(computer science) 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.
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(meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
(mathematics) The number of times an operation can be iteratively applied to a number before it reaches a permanently constant state.
2=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 quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.
The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed
The property of a continuous and connected period of time
Persistent determination
The act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior;
His perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate
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