Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being permanent; permanency.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or property of being permanent or enduring; durability; fixedness; continuance in the same state, condition, place, or office; the state of being lasting, fixed, unchanging or unchangeable in character, condition, position, office, or the like; freedom from liability to change; as, the permanence of a government or state; the permanence of liberal institutions.
- noun Synonyms See
lasting .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
permanent . - noun physics The reciprocal of
magnetic inductance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration
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Examples
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Object permanence is the concept that when we do not perceive an object, it continues to exist.
Afterlife and object permanence Richard Nokes 2005
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I don't really believe that the word permanence exists in Juria's vocabulary :P.
Memespelunk - Second Life through Juria Yoshikawa's eyes - Expect the unexpected Bettina Tizzy 2007
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Considering that Damascus saw twenty-one changes of government in the twenty-four years preceding his coup, Assad's permanence is impressive.
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Considering that Damascus saw twenty-one changes of government in the twenty-four years preceding his coup, Assad's permanence is impressive.
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That elements of permanence is what the transient democratic politician needs, and that the bureaucrat can give him.
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When five winters had passed over Susan's head, there came a time of great domestic commotion, and, in her small way, the child seized the idea that permanence is not the rule of life.
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Romance is a luxury of the living and you were several staircases down on your way to death, and we who have made a start behind you, gathering and spending, turning the rare pages with delight, shelving and reshelving the accumulated wisdom of the world, adherents to the faith in permanence, sniff the Alexandrian smoke and turn over in our first-class berths and steerage bunds or play another hand of poker as the lights flicker and at last go out.
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Romance is a luxury of the living and you were several staircases down on your way to death, and we who have made a start behind you, gathering and spending, turning the rare pages with delight, shelving and reshelving the accumulated wisdom of the world, adherents to the faith in permanence, sniff the Alexandrian smoke and turn over in our first-class berths and steerage bunds or play another hand of poker as the lights flicker and at last go out.
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Romance is a luxury of the living and you were several staircases down on your way to death, and we who have made a start behind you, gathering and spending, turning the rare pages with delight, shelving and reshelving the accumulated wisdom of the world, adherents to the faith in permanence, sniff the Alexandrian smoke and turn over in our first-class berths and steerage bunds or play another hand of poker as the lights flicker and at last go out.
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I’m not sure I would group monuments with speeches or pamphlets, as the issue of permanence is a major distinction.
Waldo Jaquith - The Supreme Court is taking a religion case. 2008
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