Hypernym for being instantaneous or sustained
What is a word for the state of being instantaneous or sustained? For example, with minimum or maximum, a good choice might be bound.
As far as the context goes, I'm working on adding some logging in to some software, and it'll keep an eye on certain statistics and see if they rise above or drop below certain thresholds. One of the ways it'll be configurable is in whether each statistic will trigger a logging statement if its current value steps out of bounds sustainably ("Sustained"), whether its average value does so sustainably ("Sustained Average"), or whether its current value just does so at all ("Instantaneous"). So I'm thinking about what to call this configuration.
Peter Coad created a term "Moment-Interval" to describe this phenomenon:
The Moment-Interval class archetype is one of four class archetypes in Peter Coad's 'modeling in color' technique.
Peter Coad defines a Moment-Interval class as modeling something that one needs to work with and track for business and legal reasons, something that occurs at a moment in time or over an interval of time.
In his later notes, he said he wanted to call it Transaction but the term was overloaded in software. But the business term of transaction can happen in an instance or over a period of time, so Business Transaction might be what you're looking for.
I guess you're looking at a rolling average or multiple measurements that exceed a threshold within a time window or perhaps a sample window.
The description sounds a bit wooly to my ears- maybe there is a more mathematical term that refers more precisely to the algorithm you are using, such as peak-to-RMS ratio within a sample window- or maybe that's too long for the intended purpose.
I might suggest:
- perseverance with a human metaphor,
- continuation with a musical or textual one,
- ephemerality if the spike is an exception,
- extensionality in a weakening of the absolute philosophical property which spaces have and points do not, or
- extendedness/extension as a less haughty version of this last.
I suggest "persistence," as any hypernym for what you're describing would require further qualification.