PERSISTENCE
11 letters
15 Scrabble points
/pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/
Definition of PERSISTENCE
noun
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The property of being persistent.
"You've got to admire his persistence. He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down."
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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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Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
Related words:
persistency
Source: Wiktionary
Word Details
Letters
P
E
R
S
I
S
T
E
N
C
E
Length
11 letters
Scrabble Score
15 points