English-Italian translations for persistent

• persistente
  Il mercurio è estremamente tossico, bioaccumulativo e persistente nell'ambiente. Mercury is extremely toxic, bioaccumulative and persistent in the environment.
  Il problema è pertanto persistente. The problem is thus a persistent one.
  E' uno scandalo che in Europa ci sia una povertà crescente e persistente. Increasing and persistent poverty in Europe is a scandal.

Definition of persistent

• Obstinately refusing to give up or let go
• Insistently repetitive
• Indefinitely continuous
• Lasting past maturity without falling off
• Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it
• Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function

Examples

• She has had a persistent cough for weeks.
• There was a persistent knocking on the door.
• There have been persistent rumours for years.
• Pine cones have persistent scales.
• Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

Related words

• persistently
• antipersistent
• persistent vegetative state
• persistent absentee
• advanced persistent threat