Usually means: Continued effort despite difficulties faced.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word persistence:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. persistence: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. persistence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. persistence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. persistence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. persistence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Persistence, persistence: Wordnik
  7. persistence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. persistence: Wiktionary
  9. persistence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. persistence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. persistence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Persistence, persistence: Dictionary.com
  13. persistence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Persistence (Discontinuity), Persistence (computer science), Persistence (disambiguation), Persistence (discontinuity), Persistence (linguistics), Persistence (psychology), Persistence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Persistence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. persistence: Rhymezone
  17. Persistence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. persistence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. persistence: Free Dictionary
  20. persistence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. persistence: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. persistence: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. persistence: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. persistence: CCI Computer
  3. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  4. persistence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. persistence: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Persistence: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Glossary of chlorine and other chemical related terms (No longer online)
  3. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Persistence: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
  2. PERSISTENCE: French-English Wine Glossary
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The property of being persistent.
noun:  (computer science) Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.
noun:  (meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
noun:  (mathematics) The number of times an operation can be iteratively applied to a number before it reaches a permanently constant state.

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