adjective. Lasting or remaining without essential change.

adjective. Not expected to change in status, condition, or place.

noun. Any of several long-lasting hair styles usually achieved by chemical applications that straighten, curl, or wave the hair.

Lasting or intended to last indefinitely; fixed or enduring in character, condition, state, position, occupation, use, or the like; remaining or intended to remain unchanged or unremoved; not temporary or subject to change; abiding: as, a permanent building; permanent colors; permanent employment; permanent possession.

In zoology, always present in a species or group.

noun. In the plural, a general name for light cotton cloth, sometimes glazed and generally dyed in bright colors.

adjective. Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting.

adjective. hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide; -- also called incondensible gases or incoercible gases, before their liquefaction in 1877. The term is now archaic.

adjective. the roadbed and superstructure of a finished railway; -- so called in distinction from the contractor's temporary way.

adjective. barium sulphate (heavy spar), used as a white pigment or paint, in distinction from white lead, which tarnishes and darkens from the formation of the sulphide.

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. Given an matrix , the sum over all permutations of .

adjective. continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place

adjective. not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition

noun. a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals

"The _true stories_ of the pioneer wives and mothers are often as interesting as any work of fiction, and need no embellishment from the imagination of a writer, because they are crowded with incidents and situations as thrilling as those which form the staple out of which novels are fabricated; love and adventure, hair-breadth escapes, heart-rending tragedies on the frontier, are thus woven into a narrative of absorbing and permanent interest, _permanent_ because it is part of the history and biography of America."

impermanent  provisional  shifting  temporary  transient  

constant  determinant  durable  ephemeral  lasting  

abiding  aeonian  ageless  enduring  eonian  

permanent way  

wave  

determinant  semipermanent  

new  temporary  ultimate  vital  

Afro  abiding  abiding  age-long  aged