{
  "id": "persist.continue",
  "term": "persist",
  "sense": "continue",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 1,
  "arena": "E1",
  "domain": "physics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "To be the same through time.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "A pattern compared with itself across time matches.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "identity through time",
      "stability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains its orbit at approximately 400 km altitude, requiring periodic reboosts to counteract atmospheric drag.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Great Red Spot on Jupiter has persisted for at least 189 years, observed continuously since 1830.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution has remained in effect since 1789, through amendments and legal interpretations.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "change.process",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "persistence is the match case, change the mismatch case, of the same comparison"
    }
  ],
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    "ambush.attack",
    "ancient.temporal",
    "bed.furniture",
    "breaking-point.threshold",
    "brink.edge",
    "business.economic",
    "capacity.size",
    "carrying.transporting",
    "city.place",
    "coherence.state",
    "complex.structured",
    "condition.state",
    "connects.verb",
    "continue.action",
    "control.ability",
    "crossed-the-line.threshold",
    "english.language",
    "essence.core",
    "establishes.verb",
    "example.temporal",
    "factor-of-safety.margin",
    "family.social",
    "free.unconstrained",
    "freedom.range",
    "full.state",
    "gas.state",
    "gone-too-far.threshold",
    "gut-feeling.trust",
    "health.condition",
    "healthy.condition",
    "held.grip",
    "high-level.abstraction",
    "history.record",
    "home.shelter",
    "hotel.lodging",
    "identity.self",
    "in-sync.harmony",
    "institutional-memory.path-dependence",
    "keep.maintenance",
    "keystone.system",
    "life.biological",
    "liquid.state",
    "live.biological",
    "love.emotional",
    "machine.constructed-system",
    "make.verb",
    "marginal.spatial",
    "metal.element",
    "moderation.central",
    "necessity.condition",
    "need.psychological",
    "new.recent",
    "object.entity",
    "on-the-ground.local",
    "organized.structure",
    "parameter.condition",
    "people.social",
    "photo.visual",
    "physical.material",
    "plate-is-full.capacity",
    "point-of-no-return.irreversible",
    "pressure.ontological",
    "privacy.social",
    "pure.state",
    "real.actual",
    "remember.cognitive",
    "sat.posture",
    "security.safety",
    "setting.contextual",
    "slack.margin",
    "sleep.biological",
    "state.condition",
    "store.place",
    "strain.measurable-degradation",
    "stress.condition",
    "stuff.material",
    "substance.material",
    "support.assistance",
    "symmetry-versus-regularity-licence.licence",
    "the-compression-claim.assertion",
    "threshold.boundary",
    "transformation.phase",
    "truth.epistemic",
    "visit.social",
    "water.liquid",
    "well.health",
    "whose-time-has-come.threshold",
    "window.range"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "persist",
    "persisted",
    "persisting",
    "persists",
    "remain",
    "remains",
    "stay",
    "stays"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "hand",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 1.0
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-persist.continue"
}