persistent

形容词 adj.
/pəˈsɪstənt/    /pɚˈsɪstənt/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
    — She has had a persistent cough for weeks.
  2. Insistently repetitive.
    — There was a persistent knocking on the door.
  3. Indefinitely continuous.
    — There have been persistent rumours for years.
  4. Lasting past maturity without falling off.
    — Pine cones have persistent scales.
  5. Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
    — Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
  6. Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
  7. non-transient.

词形变化

more persistent comparative most persistent superlative

词源

From Latin persistentem, present participle of persistō (“continue steadfastly”). By surface analysis, persist + -ent.
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