Usually means: Chemical treatment creates lasting curls.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. permanent wave: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. permanent wave: Merriam-Webster
  3. permanent wave: Collins English Dictionary
  4. permanent wave: Vocabulary.com
  5. permanent wave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. permanent wave: Wiktionary
  7. permanent wave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. permanent wave: Dictionary.com
  9. Permanent Wave (John Hartford album), Permanent Wave (album), Permanent Wave (film), Permanent wave (disambiguation), Permanent wave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. permanent wave: Rhymezone
  11. permanent wave: FreeDictionary.org
  12. permanent wave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. permanent wave: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. permanent wave: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (permanent wave)

noun:  (British) A series of waves in the hair produced by means of chemical substances and heat; a perm
noun:  (physics) A wave in a moving fluid that does not change shape or position relative to the fluid

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