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Definition of Permanent

1. Adjective. Continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place. "Literature of permanent value"

2. Noun. A series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals.

3. Adjective. Not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition. "Permanent brain damage"

Definition of Permanent

1. a. Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression.

Definition of Permanent

1. Adjective. Without end, eternal. ¹

2. Adjective. Lasting for an indefinitely long time. ¹

3. Noun. (colloquial) A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks. ¹

4. Noun. (linear algebra combinatorics) Given an $n\; \backslash times\; n$ matrix $a\_\{ij\}\; \backslash ,$, the sum over all permutations $\backslash pi\; \backslash ,$ of $\backslash prod\_\{i=1\}^n\{a\_\{i\backslash pi(i))$. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Permanent

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Permanent

1. Continuing or enduring (as the same state, status, place) without fundamental or marked change: not subject to fluctuation or alteration: fixed or intended to be fixed: lasting, stable. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Permanent

permafrost permafrosted permafrosts permafrozen permalancer permalancers permalink permalinks permalloy permalloys

permanable permanence permanences permanencies permanency permanent (current term) permanent-press permanent-press fabric permanent callus permanent cartilage

permanent dirt permanent dominant idea permanent injunction permanent magnet permanent marker permanent pedicle flap permanent press permanent residency permanent resident permanent residents

Literary usage of Permanent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"The difficulty becomes more obvious, though not more serious, when the relations in question are not merely themselves permanent, as are those between ..."

2. Report by Illinois Highway Commission (1908)
"IMPORTANCE OF BUILDING permanent BRIDGES. A large proportion of existing bridges, as well as many of those now being built, are only temporary structures, ..."

3. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1901)
"To successfully design tramway permanent way necessitates the most careful consideration of a multiplicity of small details, many of which may, ..."

4. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Insanity a permanent form of disorganization, introduced in many cases by dissociation and settling into an abnormal reorganization. ..."

5. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
"SI was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village' on the wast bank of the Mississippi ..."

6. The Elasticity and Resistance of the Materials of Engineering by William Hubert Burr (1883)
"permanent Set. One of the most important and valuable characteristics of any solid ... It is measured by the permanent " set)" or stretch, in the case of a ..."

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