Usually means: Continuing firmly despite obstacles, resistance.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word persistent:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. persistent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. persistent: Merriam-Webster
  3. persistent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. persistent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. persistent: Collins English Dictionary
  6. persistent: Vocabulary.com
  7. Persistent, persistent: Wordnik
  8. persistent: Dictionary.com
  9. persistent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Persistent (disambiguation), Persistent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. persistent: Rhymezone
  12. persistent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. persistent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. persistent: FreeDictionary.org
  15. persistent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. persistent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Persistent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. persistent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  19. persistent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. persistent: Wiktionary
  21. persistent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  22. persistent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  23. persistent: Infoplease Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. persistent: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. persistent: CCI Computer
  2. persistent: Game Dictionary
  3. persistent: Encyclopedia
  4. persistent: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. persistent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. persistent: Medical dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. persistent: Glossary of Common Tree Terms
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. persistent: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. persistent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
adjective:  (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
adjective:  (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.

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