Persistence

Persistence or Persist may refer to:

Math and computers

 * Image persistence, in LCD monitors
 * Persistence (computer science), the characteristic of data that outlives the execution of the program that created it
 * Persistence of a number, a mathematical quality of numbers
 * Persistent data structure, a data structure that always preserves the previous version of itself when it is modified
 * Persistent world, in virtual reality and computer games

Science

 * 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
 * Persistence (psychology), a personality trait
 * Persistence of vision, a theory on how the illusion of motion in films is achieved
 * Persistence forecasting, predicting the future to be the same as the present

Other

 * Persistence (log canoe), an 1890s Chesapeake Bay log canoe
 * Persist, Oregon, a ghost town in Jackson County, U.S.
 * Persistence, a 2005 demo by Konkhra
 * The Persistence, a first-person horror game developed by Firesprite
 * Persistence the rover
 * Persist (Java tool), a Java-based ORM/DAO tool
 * "Persistence", a song by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard from Omnium Gatherum