PERSISTENCE

Persistence

In computer science, persistence refers to the characteristic of state that outlives the process that created it. Without this capability, state would only exist in RAM, and would be lost when this RAM loses power, such as a computer shutdown.

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persistence

Noun

  1. 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.
  2. Of data, continuing to exist after the execution 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.
  3. Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).


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