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permanent — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • everlasting adjective Lasting forever or for an extremely long time; without end.
  • lasting adj Continuing for a long time; enduring.
  • ongoing adj Currently happening or still in progress; not yet finished.
  • permanent adj Lasting forever or for an indefinitely long time, without a planned end.

Senses

permanent is used for these senses in English:

  • everlasting Continuing for a long period; eternal.
  • lasting Persisting for an extended period of time.
  • ongoing Continuing, permanent, lasting.
  • permanent (linear algebra, combinatorics) Given an n \times n matrix a_{ij} \,, the sum over all permutations \pi \, of \prod_{i=1}^n{a_{i\pi(i)}}.

everlasting — full definition

  1. adjective Lasting forever or for an extremely long time; without end.
  2. adjective Going on so long or so often that it becomes tiresome.

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