Definition of permanant
1. permanent [ a ] continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place
Examples:
"permanent secretary to the president"
"permanent address"
"literature of permanent value"
("Editorials"...)
Suppose he did lie beside Lenin , would it be permanent ?
(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)
So we may conceive the coexistence of the infinite number of universal , apparently momentary states_of_matter , successive one_after_another in consciousness , but permanent each on its own basic phase of the progressive frequencies .
It is not through space nor time that the time_machine most approved by science_fiction must travel for a visit to the permanent prehistoric past , or the ever existent past fantasy future .
(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)
This man 's isolation is not merely momentary , it is permanent .
(Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)
The Banks_for_Cooperatives were established to provide a permanent source of credit on a sound basis for farmers ' cooperatives .
Synonyms permanent lasting Related Terms impermanent ageless abiding standing indissoluble stable unchangeable ineradicable permanence2. permanent [ a ] not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition
Examples:
"permanent brain damage"
3. permanent [ n ] a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals
Synonyms permanent perm permanent_wave Related Terms wave permSimilar Spelling
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