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Word entry · 11 letters

persistence

Best crossword clue

"Stick-to-it quality"

11 letters · collected on this word page

11 lettersPronunciation /pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/Part of speech nounSorted ceeeinprsstStarts with PEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior

Word origin

From Middle French persistance, from persistant, from Latin persistēns, from persistō. By surface analysis, persist + -ence.

Used in a sentence

  • You've got to admire her persistence. She's asked him out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
  • The Thaumatrope was based on the persistence of vision. The disc of card was rotated so rapidly by means of threads attached to it that the eye saw both sides of the card simultaneously.
  • Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

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