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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
Octavia Butler

Meaning of "persistence" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PERSISTENCE

persistence  [pəˈsɪstəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERSISTENCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Persistence is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PERSISTENCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Persistence

Persistence may refer to: ▪ Image persistence, in LCD monitors ▪ Multidrug tolerance, a dormant, persistent state of a bacterial population ▪ Persistence, the characteristic of data that outlives the execution of the program that created it ▪ Persistent data structure, a data structure that always preserves the previous version of itself when it is modified. ▪ Persistence, a personality trait ▪ Persistence, a concept in geotechnical engineering ▪ Persistence of a number, a mathematical quality of numbers ▪ Persistent world, in virtual reality and computer games ▪ Persistence of vision, a theory on how the illusion of motion in films is achieved...

Definition of persistence in the English dictionary

The first definition of persistence in the dictionary is the quality of persisting; tenacity. Other definition of persistence is the act of persisting; continued effort or existence. Persistence is also the continuance of an effect after the cause of it has stopped.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERSISTENCE


assistance
əˈsɪstəns
consistence
kənˈsɪstəns
desistance
dɪˈzɪstəns
desistence
dɪˈzɪstəns
distance
ˈdɪstəns
equidistance
ˌiːkwɪˈdɪstəns
existence
ɪɡˈzɪstəns
inconsistence
ˌɪnkənˈsɪstəns
inexistence
ˌɪnɪɡˈzɪstəns
insistence
ɪnˈsɪstəns
instance
ˈɪnstəns
irresistance
ɪrɪˈzɪstəns
nonexistence
ˈnɒnɪɡˈzɪstəns
nonresistance
ˌnɒnrɪˈzɪstəns
outdistance
ˌaʊtˈdɪstəns
pre-existence
ˈpriːɪɡˈzɪstəns
resistance
rɪˈzɪstəns
self-existence
ˌsɛlfɪɡˈzɪstəns
subsistence
səbˈsɪstəns
substance
ˈsʌbstəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERSISTENCE

persicaria
persicot
persienne
persiennes
persiflage
persifleur
persimmon
Persis
persist
persistency
persistent
persistent cruelty
persistent offender
persistent organic pollutant
persistent vegetative state
persistently
persister
persistingly
persistive
persnicketiness

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERSISTENCE

at your convenience
coexistence
competence
complex sentence
custodial sentence
death sentence
impotence
inadvertence
incompetence
jail sentence
life sentence
omnipotence
potence
presentence
pretence
prison sentence
sentence
simple sentence
struggle for existence
suspended sentence
topic sentence

Synonyms and antonyms of persistence in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PERSISTENCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «persistence» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of persistence

Translation of «persistence» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERSISTENCE

Find out the translation of persistence to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of persistence from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «persistence» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

坚持不懈
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

empeño
570 millions of speakers

English

persistence
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हठ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

استمرار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

настойчивость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

persistência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অধ্যবসায়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

persistance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

kegigihan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Beharrlichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

粘り強さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

고집
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Terus-terusan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kiên trì
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிலைபேறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चिकाटी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sebat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tenacia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

utrzymywanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

наполегливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

persistența
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επιμονή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

volharding
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

persistens
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

utholdenhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of persistence

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERSISTENCE»

The term «persistence» is very widely used and occupies the 20.437 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERSISTENCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «persistence» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «persistence» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about persistence

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10 QUOTES WITH «PERSISTENCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word persistence.
1
James Altucher
Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.
2
Nicholson Baker
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.
3
David A. Bednar
Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.
4
Hal Borland
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
5
Caprice Bourret
I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
6
Nicholas Brendon
Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.
7
Ralph Bunche
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
8
David D. Burns
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.
9
Octavia Butler
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
10
Octavia E. Butler
The big talent is persistence.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERSISTENCE»

Discover the use of persistence in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to persistence and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of ...
This paperback edition of Creation and the Persistence of Evil brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era.
Jon Douglas Levenson, 1988
2
Spring Persistence with Hibernate
This book gets you rolling with fundamental Spring Framework 3 concepts and integrating persistence functionality into enterprise Java applications using Hibernate, the Java™ Persistence API (JPA) 2, and the Grails Object Relational ...
Paul Tepper Fisher, Brian D. Murphy, 2010
3
NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of ...
The book concludes by describing how NoSQL is ushering in a new age of Polyglot Persistence, where multiple data-storage worlds coexist, and architects can choose the technology best optimized for each type of data access.
Pramod J. Sadalage, Martin Fowler, 2012
4
The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary ...
Through a series of incisive readings of leading theoretical figures of affirmationism--Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri and Alain Badiou--Benjamin Noys contests the tendency of recent theory to rely on ...
Benjamin Noys, 2010
5
The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television and the ...
Exploring a range of film and video texts, from The Ten Commandments to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Errol Morris to Oliver Stone's JFK and Spielberg's Schindler's List, the volume questions the ...
Vivian Sobchack, 2014
6
Dynamical Systems and Population Persistence
"The mathematical theory of persistence answers questions such as which species, in a mathematical model of interacting species, will survive over the long term.
Hal L. Smith, Horst R. Thieme, 2011
7
Persistence: Contemporary Readings
Influential accounts of persistence—how ordinary objects persist through time—examine the perdurantist, exdurantist, and endurantist approaches and provide an overview of the topic.
Sally Anne Haslanger, Roxanne Marie Kurtz, 2006
8
The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath
Discussing Heidegger, Gadamer, Adorno, Leo Strauss, Manfred Frank, and John McDowell, Robert Pippin attempts to understand how subjectivity arises in contemporary institutional practices such as medicine, as well as in other contexts such ...
Robert B. Pippin, 2005
9
Persistence
The aim of this edition is to present new arguments, perspectives, and theoretical backgrounds concerning 'persistence': There is much more to consider than the classical distinction between 'endurantism' and 'perdurantism'.
Christian Kanzian, 2007
10
Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English: A Corpus ...
Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use linguistic material that they have produced or heard before. The book explores the determinants of this persistence in corpus data of spoken English.
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERSISTENCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term persistence is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Discrete Diodes Market - Global Industry Analysis and Forecast …
Persistence Market Research Pvt. Ltd has released a new report titled "Discrete Diodes Market - Global Industry Analysis and Forecast 2015 ... «PR.com, Jul 15»
2
Persistence pays off for Thibaut Pinot
Thibaut Pinot has put in plenty of work hunting stage wins over the past few days, and his persistence was finally rewarded with a victory atop ... «velonews.competitor.com, Jul 15»
3
Toronto has timing, persistence on its side for 2024 Summer …
The man who helped Vancouver land the 2010 Winter Games has some advice for Toronto if it wants to be Canada's next Olympic host city ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
4
Georgia's all-female colleges: Persistence in face of closures
Georgia's all-female colleges: Persistence in face of closures. Story · Comments. Print: Create a hardcopy of this page; Font Size: Default font ... «Red and Black, Jul 15»
5
Persistence pays off for Nikkei with FT deal
Snatching a deal to buy the Financial Times at the eleventh hour was a dream come true for Nikkei, which had been stalking the venerated ... «The Times, Jul 15»
6
Norwich's persistence pays off in pursuit of Hull City man
Norwich's persistence pays off in pursuit of Hull City's Robbie Brady · John August. Published now. 0. Share 0 · Tweet 0 · +1 0 · Share 0 · Stumble 0 · Pin 0. «HITC, Jul 15»
7
A Daughter's Faith and Persistence Help Solve a 43-Year-Old Mystery
Amos Shook was in his mid-40s when he went missing February 19, 1972. His daughter, Pamela, was just 14 at the time of his disappearance, ... «io9, Jul 15»
8
The effects of the Kalamazoo Promise Scholarship on college …
In this paper, we estimate the effects of the Kalamazoo Promise on postsecondary education outcomes, including attendance, persistence, and ... «Brookings Institution, Jul 15»
9
Persistence pays off for new state hockey player
FOR YEARS Lauren Millican has watched her friends get selected in Queensland hockey teams while missing out on selection herself. «Gladstone Observer, Jul 15»
10
New Texas Tech student could teach class in persistence
Texas Tech is full of students who are determined, but one woman can probably teach life lessons in persistence to many students as a ... «LubbockOnline.com, Jul 15»

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