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Permanent

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adjective

(1) Continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place

"Permanent secretary to the president"

"Permanent address"

"Literature of permanent value"

(2) Not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition

"Permanent brain damage"

noun

(3) A series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals

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Etymology

From permanent, from permanens (continuing), from permanēo (to stay to the end). Used in English since 15th century.

Adjective

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.

Related terms

permadeath

permafrost

permatemp

Noun

A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks.
Given an $n \times n$ matrix $a_{ij} \,$ , the sum over all permutations $\pi \,$ of $\prod_{i=1}^n{a_{i\pi(i)}}$ .

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