Persistence 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 See also Persistent (disambiguation) The Persistence of Memory (disambiguation)