permanent has definitions from the field of zoology
1
[ adjective ] continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place

Synonyms

lasting

Examples

"permanent secretary to the president" "permanent address" "literature of permanent value"

Used in print

("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 .

2
[ adjective ] not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition

Examples

"permanent brain damage"

Related terms

irreversible

3
[ noun ] (zoology) a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals

Synonyms

perm permanent_wave

Related terms

wave perm

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