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adjective

• Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.

  Example: She has had a persistent cough for weeks.

• Insistently repetitive.

  Example: There was a persistent knocking on the door.

• Indefinitely continuous.

  Example: There have been persistent rumours for years.

• Lasting past maturity without falling off.

  Example: Pine cones have persistent scales.

• Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.

  Example: Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

• Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function

• (stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.