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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Persistence \Per*sist"ence\, Persistency \Per*sist"en*cy\, n.
The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.
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The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed; as:
(Physics) The persistence of motion.
(Physiol.) Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual impression; auditory persistence, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Middle French persistance, from persistant "lasting, enduring, permanent," from Latin persistentem (nominative persistens), present participle of persistere (see persist). Often spelled persistance 16c. Related: Persistency.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The property of being persistent. 2 (context computer science English) Of data, continuing to exist after the execution of the program. 3 (context meteorology English) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
WordNet
n. the property of a continuous and connected period of time [syn: continuity]
persistent determination [syn: doggedness, perseverance, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacity]
the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior; "his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate" [syn: perseverance, perseveration]
Wikipedia
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
- Persistent data structure, a data structure that always preserves the previous version of itself when it is modified.
- Persistence (psychology), a personality trait
- Persistence (discontinuity), a concept 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
- Persist, Oregon, a ghost town in the United States
- Persistence, 2005 demo by Konkhra
In computer science, persistence refers to the characteristic of state that outlives the process that created it. This is achieved in practice by storing the state as data in computer data storage. Programs have to transfer data to and from storage devices and have to provide mappings from the native programming-language data structures to the storage device data structures.
Picture editing programs or word processors, for example, achieve state persistence by saving their documents to files.
The ''' Persistence ''' is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built in the 1890s, possibly by John B. Harrison in Tilghman, Maryland. She measures 32'-4" long, with a beam of 6'-11" and is double-ended with no longhead on her bow. She is one of the last 22 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay racing log canoes that carry on a tradition of racing on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that has existed since the 1840s. She is located at St. Michaels, Talbot County, Maryland.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Persistence determines the possibilities of relative movement along a discontinuity in a soil or rock mass in geotechnical engineering. Discontinuities are usually differentiated in persistent, non-persistent, and abutting discontinuities (figure).
Persistence in linguistics refers to one of the five principles by which you can detect grammaticalisation while it is taking place. The other four are: layering, divergence, specialisation, and de-categorialisation.
“When a form undergoes grammaticalization from a lexical to a grammatical function, as long as it is grammatically viable some traces of its original lexical meanings tend to adhere to it, and details of its lexical history may be reflected in constraints on its grammatical distribution.” ( Hopper 1991: 22)
“The principle of persistence relates the meaning and function of a grammatical form to its history as a lexical morpheme. This relationship is often completely opaque by the stage of morphologisation, but during intermediate stages it may be expected that a form will be polysemous, and that one or more of its meaning will reflect a dominant earlier meaning.” (Hopper 1991: 28) In other words, grammaticalisation can be a ‘diachronic’ explanatory parameter for certain otherwise hard-to-explain ‘synchronic’ ( semantic and distributional) properties of grammatical signs.
The lexical roots of a grammaticalised feature may remain visible in its grammatical function and may influence its grammatical distribution.
In psychology, persistence (PS) is a personality trait. It is measured in the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and is considered one of the four temperament traits. Persistence refers to perseverance in spite of fatigue or frustration. Cloninger's research found that persistence, like the other temperament traits, is highly heritable. The subscales of PS in TCI-R consist of:
- Eagerness of effort (PS1)
- Work hardened (PS2)
- Ambitious (PS3)
- Perfectionist (PS4)
A study comparing the Temperament and Character Inventory to the five factor model of personality found that persistence was substantially associated with conscientiousness. Additionally, persistence was moderately positively associated with the TCI trait of self-transcendence. Research has also found that persistence is positively correlated with Activity in Zuckerman's "Alternative Five" model, and is negatively correlated with psychoticism in Eysenck's model.
Persistence can also be measured as the time invested in staying on task. As an example, if a cab driver works an 8-hour shift, their persistence is 8 hours. This isn't a relation to how hard one works, as this is a reference to force. If person A is a hard worker and person B is not, this is a reference to effort, not persistence.
Usage examples of "persistence".
His energy pumps the blood round the brewery, and it is his persistence that makes sure that everything that ought to be done, is done.
In all the administration has been bad, the law and its officers have been regarded as dangers, if not as deliberate enemies, so that they have found little native help, and, what is not the least important cause of the persistence of brigandage, there have generally been local potentates who found it to their interest to protect the brigand.
He displayed a continuing erection which George estimated must exceed a foot in length, thus explaining his ability to exhibit such persistence.
Dekkeret himself had only the most casual interest in the persistence of the mantic arts as a phenomenon of modern culture, and no belief whatever in their predictive value.
Schacter catalogs them as transience, persistence, absentmindedness, blocking, bias, misattribution, and suggestibility.
Although their slow stagger was obviously no match for that of the van, the relentlessness and pointless persistence of the rotting gathering caused an icy chill to run the entire length of his spine.
Just as the master Arab calligraphers, commited to the notion of the endless persistence of tradition and books, had for five centuries been in the habit of resting their eyes as a precaution against blindness by turning their backs to the rising sun and looking toward the western horizon, Ibn Shakir ascended the minaret of the Caliphet Mosque in the coolness of morning, and from the balcony where the muezzin called the faithful to prayer, witnessed all that would end a five-centuries-long tradition of scribal art.
Without Sherk, Victory Smith was left with her own assets: courage, strength, persistence.
Freeman, realizing that there was certainly no chance for him of finishing his patients unless he gave way to her persistence, wrote a brief note certifying that in his opinion Mrs Dunwoody, who was suffering from mitral stenosis, would benefit from accommodation which did not involve the climbing of stairs.
He meant, of course, that he looked over his earlier works for roads unfollowed, trusting in the persistence of concerns and the renewal of old fascinations to stimulate some new ideas.
A second hypothesis might be that the unforeseen persistence of capitalism involves simply a continuation of the same processes of expansion and accumulation that we analyzed earlier, only that the complete depletion of the environment was not yet imminent, and that the moment of conf ronting limits and of ecological disaster is still to come.
The blacks had been torn from their land and culture, forced into a situation where the heritage of language, dress, custom, family relations, was bit by bit obliterated except for the remnants that blacks could hold on to by sheer, extraordinary persistence.
It was a true son of France who first had the persistence of courage and the endurance of imagination to enter the continent and see the gates close behind him--Jacques Cartier, a master pilot of St.
But that Endpoint spirit, that spirit of Hope and Persistence and all those other places where Endpointers have survived against all the odds, that spirit will see you through, help you survive.
The Sauropoda, on the other hand, constitute a dinosaur group which proved to be a great success not only due to their differentiation, but also due to their long persistence during Mesozoic time.