persistent

  1. Adjective.  Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
  2. Adjective.  Insistently repetitive.
  3. Adjective.  Indefinitely continuous.
  4. Adjective.  (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
  5. Adjective.  (computing) About some data or data structures: existing after the execution of the program. Remaining in existence past the lifetime of the program that creates it.
  6. Adjective.  (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function.
  7. Adjective.  (mathematics, stochastic processes) non-transient.

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