Usually means: Lasting or intended to last indefinitely.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word permanent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. permanent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. permanent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. permanent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. permanent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. permanent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Permanent, permanent: Wordnik
  7. permanent, permanent (wave): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. permanent: Wiktionary
  9. permanent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. permanent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. permanent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. permanent: Dictionary.com
  13. permanent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. permanent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Permanent (Joy Division album), Permanent (film), Permanent (mathematics), Permanent (song), Permanent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Permanent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. permanent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. permanent: Rhymezone
  19. permanent, permanent, permanent(e), permanent (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. permanent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. permanent: Free Dictionary
  22. permanent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. permanent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. permanent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. permanent: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Permanent (mathematics), permanent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Permanent (mathematics), permanent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Permanent: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. permanent: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Permanent: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Without end, eternal.
adjective:  Lasting for an indefinitely long time.
noun:  A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.
noun:  (linear algebra, combinatorics) Given an n×n matrix a_ij,, the sum over all permutations π, of ∏ᵢ₌₁ⁿa_iπ(i).
noun:  (collectible card games) A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To perm (the hair).

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