permanent

Used in English since 15th century, from Middle French permanent, from Latin permanens, from permanēo (“I stay through”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝmənənt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːmənənt/

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• Hyphenation: per‧ma‧nent

permanent (comparative more permanent, superlative most permanent)

1. Without end, eternal.

   Nothing in this world is truly permanent.

2. Lasting for an indefinitely long time.

   The countries are now locked in a permanent state of conflict.

• impermanent, temporary

• permafrost
• permatemp

permanent (plural permanents)

1. 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.

2. (linear algebra, combinatorics) Given an ${\displaystyle n\times n}$ matrix ${\displaystyle a_{ij}\,}$ , the sum over all permutations ${\displaystyle \pi \,}$ of ${\displaystyle \prod _{i=1}^{n}{a_{i\pi (i)}}}$ .

• determinant
• ephemeral
• relaxer
• temporary

permanent (third-person singular simple present permanents, present participle permanenting, simple past and past participle permanented)

1. (transitive, dated) To perm (the hair).

• permanent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• permanent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• permanent at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Petermann, merpentan

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /pəɾ.məˈnent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pər.məˈnen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /peɾ.maˈnent/

permanent (masculine and feminine plural permanents)

1. permanent

• permanència
• permanentment

• “permanent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin permanentem (accusative of permanens).

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃/

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permanent (feminine singular permanente, masculine plural permanents, feminine plural permanentes)

1. permanent

permanent m (plural permanents)

1. (mathematics) permanent

• permanence
• impermanent

• “permanent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from French permanent.

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁmaˈnɛnt/

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permanent (not comparable)

1. permanent

permanent

1. permanently, incessantly

• ständig, unaufhörlich

• permanent in Duden online

• permanënt

permanent m (feminine singular permanenta, masculine plural permanents, feminine plural permanentes)

1. permanent

permanent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of permaneō

permanent m (feminine singular permanente, masculine plural permanents, feminine plural permanentes)

1. permanent

From Latin permanens

permanent (neuter singular permanent, definite singular and plural permanente)

1. permanent
2. (as an adverb) permanently

• “permanent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin permanens

permanent (neuter singular permanent, definite singular and plural permanente)

1. permanent

• “permanent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.