persistent vs transitive

persistent

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

  • Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function 

  • Lasting past maturity without falling off. 

  • non-transient. 

  • Obstinately refusing to give up or let go. 

  • Insistently repetitive. 

  • Indefinitely continuous. 

transitive

adj
  • Affected by transference of signification. 

  • Taking a direct object or objects. 

  • Making a transit or passage. 

  • Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c. 

  • Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. 

  • Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. 

noun
  • A transitive verb. 

How often have the words persistent and transitive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )