The difference between Persistent and Recurrent

When used as adjectives, persistent means obstinately refusing to give up or let go, whereas recurrent means recurring.

check bellow for the other definitions of Persistent and Recurrent

  1. Persistent as an adjective:

    Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.

    Examples:

    "She has had a persistent cough for weeks."

  2. Persistent as an adjective:

    Insistently repetitive.

    Examples:

    "There was a persistent knocking on the door."

  3. Persistent as an adjective:

    Indefinitely continuous.

    Examples:

    "There have been persistent rumours for years."

  4. Persistent as an adjective (botany):

    Lasting past maturity without falling off.

    Examples:

    "Pine cones have persistent scales."

  5. Persistent as an adjective (computing):

    Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.

    Examples:

    "Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program."

  6. Persistent as an adjective (mathematics):

    Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function

  7. Persistent as an adjective (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a [[state]]):

    non-transient.

  1. Recurrent as an adjective:

    Recurring; happening time after time.

    Examples:

    "The patient complained of recurrent chest pain."

  2. Recurrent as an adjective (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a [[state]]):

    Non-transient.

  3. Recurrent as an adjective:

    Running back toward its origin.

    Examples:

    "a recurrent nerve or artery"

    "antonyms precurrent"

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