[{"word":"persistence","phonetic":"/pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/","phonetics":[{"text":"/pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The property of being persistent.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"You've got to admire his persistence. He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down."},{"definition":"Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program."},{"definition":"Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["persistency"],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/persistence"]}]