permanent
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
permanent
- Without end, eternal.
- Nothing in this world is truly permanent.
- Lasting for an indefinitely long time.
- The countries are now locked in a permanent state of conflict.
- (without end) everlasting, neverending, unending; see also Thesaurus:eternal or Thesaurus:endless
- (lasting for an indefinitely long time) durable, intransient; see also Thesaurus:lasting
- permafrost
- permatemp
- French: permanent
- German: permanent, ständig, beständig, unbefristet, dauerhaft
- Italian: permanente
- Portuguese: permanente
- Russian: постоя́нный
- Spanish: permanente
- French: permanent
- German: ständig, permanent
- Italian: permanente
- Portuguese: permanente
- Russian: долговре́менный
- Spanish: permanente
permanent (plural permanents)
- A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.
- 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin 2005, p. 8:
- She had pewter-coloured hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.
- 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin 2005, p. 8:
- (linear algebra, combinatorics) Given an n \times n matrix a_{ij} \,, the sum over all permutations \pi \, of \prod_{i=1}^n{a_{i\pi(i)}}.
- (trading card games) A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.
- French: permanente
- German: Dauerwelle
- Italian: permanente, messa in piega
- Russian: пермане́нт
- French: permanent
- German: Permanente
permanent (permanents, present participle permanenting; past and past participle permanented)
- (transitive, dated) To perm (the hair).
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