Meaning of PERMANENCE
| Pronunciation: | | 'purmununs
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| | Definition: | | [n] the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration |
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| | Synonyms: | | permanency |
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| | Antonyms: | | impermanence, impermanency | | |
| | See Also: | | durability, duration, enduringness, immortality, imperishability, imperishingness, lastingness, length, perdurability, perpetuity, strength | |
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| | Definition: | |  Permanence
In this far-future universe, humans colonized scores of `halo worlds`--the brown dwarf bodies that are part giant planet, part small sun--and established a tenuous trading pact--the Cycler Compact--which allows for regulated trade among colonies using sub-light spaceships called cyclers. A new technology--faster-than-light ships (FTL)--threatens to send the halo worlds into a Dark Age. Rue Cassels discovers an alien ship, and her quest, along with a band of odd travellers, to the far reaches of the universe in search of the ship`s origin, will determine the fate of the halo worlds. more details ... |
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| | Definition: | | \Per"ma*nence\, Permanency \Per"ma*nen*cy\, n. [Cf.
F. permanence.]
The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the
same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence
of institutions; the permanence of nature.
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| | Related Terms: | | abidingness, age, antiquity, application, assiduity, assiduousness, bulldog tenacity, ceaselessness, changelessness, coeternity, concentration, constancy, continualness, continuance, defeat of time, defiance of time, dependability, diligence, diuturnity, dogged perseverance, doggedness, durability, durableness, duration, endlessness, endurance, engrossment, eternalness, eternity, ever-duringness, everlastingness, everness, fidelity, fixedness, foreverness, immutability, incessancy, incommutability, indefatigability, indefeasibility, indestructibility, industriousness, industry, inertness, infinite duration, infinity, insistence, insistency, interminability, intransmutability, irretrievability, irreversibility, irrevocability, lastingness, long standing, longevity, long-lastingness, long-livedness, loyalty, maintenance, never-endingness, obstinacy, patience, patience of Job, perdurability, perennation, perenniality, perennialness, permanency, perpetualness, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, plugging, preoccupation, relentlessness, reliability, resolution, sedulity, sedulousness, sempiternity, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, stability, stamina, standing, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, stubbornness, survival, survivance, tenaciousness, tenacity, timelessness, tirelessness, unalterability, unceasingness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unmodifiability, unremittingness, unrestorableness, unreturnableness, unswerving attention |
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