{
  "id": "persistence.endurance",
  "term": "persistence",
  "sense": "endurance",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "abstract",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Remaining within a window while a parameter changes, whether kept by the narrowness of the window or by work against drift.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "drift.aimless",
      "parameter.condition",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "against.opposition",
      "change.process",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "work.effort",
      "time.dimension",
      "whether.conditional"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components interact to sustain a thing within a bounded condition as parameters change over time, either by resisting drift through effort or by confinement within narrow limits.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sustained presence within bounds",
      "resistance to parameter drift",
      "persistence through maintenance or constraint"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains orbit at 400 km altitude despite atmospheric drag, requiring regular reboosts from visiting spacecraft.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neurons in the human prefrontal cortex sustain firing patterns during working memory tasks, holding information for seconds despite neural noise.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates from 0.25% to 5.5% between 2022 and 2023 to curb inflation above its 2% target.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "drift.aimless",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "Persistence is maintained either despite drift or by a window constrained enough that drift does not force exit."
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "essence.core",
    "tough.resilient"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "persistence"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "windows.opening (L10) was added as it is conceptually necessary for the 'window' structure implied in the definition; wall.range-end was removed as it is redundant with window.range and not independen"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-persistence.endurance"
}