Persistence or Persist may refer to:

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Persistent (disambiguation)
• The Persistence of Memory (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Persistence