persistent
- Adjective. Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Adjective. Insistently repetitive.
- Adjective. Indefinitely continuous.
- Adjective. (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- 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.
- Adjective. (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function.
- Adjective. (mathematics, stochastic processes) non-transient.
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