English-Portuguese translations for persistent

• persistente
  O mercúrio é extremamente tóxico, bioacumulativo e persistente no ambiente. Mercury is extremely toxic, bioaccumulative and persistent in the environment.
  O problema é persistente, portanto. The problem is thus a persistent one.
  Assim sendo, as mulheres são mais afectadas pela pobreza persistente do que os homens. As a result, women are more affected than men by persistent poverty.
• obstinado
  Esperamos sinceramente que a Roménia presidida pelo Sr. Basescu quebre este obstinado feitiço político. We very much hope that Romania, under President Basescu, will break this persistent political spell.
  Certamente não seríamos tão obstinados se se tratasse apenas de um caso único, como o indica também a minha referência ao ECHO. We would not be so persistent - as shown by my reference to ECHO - if this were a one-off case.
  Senhor Presidente, gostaria de agradecer à senhora deputada Smet, pelo trabalho obstinado e persistente em prol dos direitos das mulheres. Mr President, I should like to thank Mrs Smet for her very dogged and persistent work on women’s rights.
• teimoso

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