[{"word":"persistent","phonetic":"/pəˈsɪstənt/","phonetics":[{"text":"/pəˈsɪstənt/","audio":""},{"text":"/pɚˈsɪstənt/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"adjective","definitions":[{"definition":"Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"She has had a persistent cough for weeks."},{"definition":"Insistently repetitive.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"There was a persistent knocking on the door."},{"definition":"Indefinitely continuous.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"There have been persistent rumours for years."},{"definition":"Lasting past maturity without falling off.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Pine cones have persistent scales."},{"definition":"Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program."},{"definition":"Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/persistent"]}]