persistence
Pronunciation:
/pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/noun
Definitions
The property of being persistent.
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.
Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.
Example: Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).