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Multidrug tolerance, a dormant, persistent state of a bacterial population; Persistence (botany), describing plant parts that remain attached to the plant after completing their function; Persistence (discontinuity), a concept in geotechnical engineering; Persistence (linguistics), a principle of grammaticalization
The term "persistent" was first introduced by Atkinson and Morrison [1] in the sense of orthogonal persistence: they used an adjective rather than a verb to emphasize persistence as a property of the data, as distinct from an imperative action performed by a program. The use of the transitive verb "persist" (describing an action performed by a ...
Persistent may refer to: Persistent data; Persistent data structure; Persistent identifier; Persistent memory; Persistent organic pollutant; Persistent Systems, a ...
Perhaps the simplest persistent data structure is the singly linked list or cons-based list, a simple list of objects formed by each carrying a reference to the next in the list. This is persistent because the tail of the list can be taken, meaning the last k items for some k, and new nodes can be added in front of it. The tail will not be ...
group of plain beds used as no-frills lodging (UK: dormitory, q.v.); also used as a verb ("I bunked with them in their room"; "The cabin could bunk about 18") bureau: a type of writing table: a public office or government agency a type of chest of drawers: burn (n.) (Scotland and Northern England) narrow river, stream – more s.v. creek
Psychologist K. Anders Ericsson, in his book Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, criticized the tendency to credit persistent practice to traits such as grit or willpower. He wrote: "It may seem natural to assume that these people who maintain intense practice schedules for years have some rare gift of willpower or 'grit' or 'stick ...
The city’s hated new congestion toll could dangerously delay FDNY response times — meaning the “difference between life and death,” unions repping thousands of Bravest warned Sunday. The ...
For example, in Serbo-Croatian, the Old Church Slavonic verb xъtěti ("to want/to wish") has gone from a content word (hoće hoditi "s/he wants to walk") to an auxiliary verb in phonetically reduced form (on/ona će hoditi "s/he will walk") to a clitic (hoditi će), and finally to a fused inflection (hodiće "s/he will walk").