[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

persistent \persist"ent\, a. l. persistens, -entis, p. pr. of
   persistere. see persist.
   1. inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious
      of position or purpose.
      1913 webster

   2. biol. remaining beyond the period when parts of the same
      kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as,
      persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed
      to deciduous, and caducous.
      1913 webster
see also:
persist deciduous caducous 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

persistent
     adj 1: never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums" syn: relentless,
             unrelenting
     2: continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the
        cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting
        beauty"- claudia cassidy syn: haunting
     3: retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past
        maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes" syn: lasting
        ant: caducous
see also:
relentless unrelenting haunting lasting caducous 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

245 moby thesaurus words for "persistent":
   abiding, accordant, adherent, adhesive, age-long, aged, alike,
   ancient, antique, archaic, assiduous, automatic, balanced, beaten,
   booming, bound, bound and determined, bulldogged, bulldoggish,
   bulldoggy, bullheaded, changeless, chronic, clamant, clamorous,
   clingy, committed, consistent, consonant, constant, continual,
   continuing, continuous, correspondent, crying, decided, decisive,
   dedicated, definite, demanding, determined, devoted, diligent,
   diuturnal, dogged, draining, durable, earnest, echoic, echoing,
   enduring, equable, equal, even, evergreen, exacting, exigent,
   exorbitant, extortionate, faithful, fast, firm, fixed, flat,
   frequent, frozen, gluey, glutinous, grasping, growling, gummy,
   habitual, hackneyed, hardy, haunting, homogeneous, immobile,
   immutable, importunate, inalterable, incessant, indefatigable,
   indelible, indomitable, industrious, inflexible, insistent,
   instant, intact, interminable, intransient, invariable, inveterate,
   invincible, inviolate, lasting, level, lingering, long-lasting,
   long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, loud,
   loyal, macrobiotic, measured, mechanical, methodic, monolithic,
   nagging, never-tiring, obdurate, obsessive, obstinate, of a piece,
   of long duration, of long standing, ordered, orderly, patient,
   patient as job, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent,
   perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persisting, pertinacious,
   plodding, plugging, preoccupied, pressing, purposeful, quiescent,
   rapt, reboant, rebounding, recurrent, recurring, reechoing,
   regular, relentless, remaining, repercussive, repetitive, resolute,
   resolved, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory,
   rigid, robotlike, routine, rumbling, sedulous, self-adhesive,
   sempervirent, serious, sincere, single-minded, sleepless, slogging,
   smooth, solid, sounding, stable, static, stationary, staunch,
   staying, steadfast, steady, stereotyped, stickable, sticking,
   sticky, stubborn, sustained, systematic, tacky, taxing, tenacious,
   thundering, tireless, torpid, tough, trite, unabating, unaltered,
   unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging,
   unchecked, unconquerable, undamped, undaunted, undestroyed,
   undeveloped, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiscouraged,
   undiversified, undrooping, undying, unending, unfading, unfailing,
   unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unforgettable, uniform,
   unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting,
   unremitting, unruffled, unshakable, unshifting, unsleeping,
   unswerving, untiring, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied,
   unwearying, unwinking, urgent, utterly attentive, viscid, vital,
   weariless, well-trodden, well-worn, wholehearted

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

persistent
     
        persistence
     
     
see also:
persistence 

Persistent >> P Words
Persistent, definition of term: Persistent
persistent_pag1.html

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants(POPs)
...STOCKHOLM CONVENTION. ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC. POLLUTANTS (POPs). ... to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic ... ..
http://www.pops.int/, score=100, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 11:51 pm

Persistent Organic Pollutants(POPs)
...Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are chemical substances that ... Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are chemical substances that ... ..
http://www.chem.unep.ch/pops/, score=96, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 7:02 pm

Persistent Systems: Outsourced Software Product Development, Offshore Software ...
...Persistent pioneered the OPD model 15 years ago and has over 150 ... Persistent Systems : leading provider of Outsourced Software Product ... ..
http://www.pspl.co.in/, score=95, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 12:11 am

persistent.info
...http://persistent.info/modules/datetime.xml. in the "Create a Section ... ..
http://www.persistent.info/, score=94, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 8:33 am

www.persistent-identifier.de
...zum Themenbereich "Persistent Identifier". *über Persistent Identifier ... ..
http://www.persistent-identifier.de/, score=92, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 10:57 pm

Persistent Programming Research Group
... ..
http://www-ppg.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/, score=91, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 10:28 pm

Persistent Modula-3
...... Programming Systems group's implementation of Persistent Modula-3 is ... To follow updates and discussions on Persistent Modula-3 via a mailing ... ..
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/pm3.html, score=90, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 3:29 am

The AskTog Bug House: Ten Most Persistent Design Bugs
...I have now folded the worst of the Most Persistent design bugs into ... Interaction Design Section . 10 Most Persistent Design Bugs Last ... ..
http://www.asktog.com/Bughouse/10MostPersistentBugs.html, score=89, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 7:43 pm

PERSISTENT PULMONARY HYPERTENSION OF THE NEWBORN
...Persistent pulmonary vascular obstruction *Persistent fetal ... Persistent transitional circulation. Definition. Persistent pulmonary ... ..
http://neonatal.peds.washington.edu/NICU-WEB/pphn.stm, score=80, date indexed=January 23, 2006, 8:14 pm

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