English-Finnish translations for persistence

• kestävyys
• sitkeys
  Suurin syy tähän on terrorismin sitkeys Euroopan unionissa. The main cause of this is the persistence of terrorism in the European Union.
  Syy tähän on yksinkertaisesti terrorismin sitkeys. The reason is nothing less than the persistence of terrorism.
  – Lähitulevaisuuden toimillemme on oltava ominaista lähinnä sinnikkyys ja sitkeys. –  Our work in the immediate future must be characterised principally by persistence and insistence.

Definition of persistence

• The property of being persistent
• Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program
• Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics

Examples

• Youve got to admire his persistence. Hes asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
• Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

Related words

• persistency
• antipersistence
• persistence hunting
• persistence of vision