Persistence
WordNet
noun
(1) The act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior
"His perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate"
(2) Persistent determination
(3) The property of a continuous and connected period of time
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The property of being persistent.
- 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, continuing to exist after the execution of the program.
- Once written to a disk file the data has persistence, it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
- Referring to the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics)