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semipermanent

adj

Etymology

From semi- + permanent.

  1. derived from permanēns
  2. derived from permanent
  3. inherited from permanent
  4. prefixed as semipermanent — “semi + permanent”

Definitions

  1. Neither temporary nor entirely permanent

    Neither temporary nor entirely permanent; of indefinite duration.

    • Such movable insulation could be applied to the end walls, either in the form of insulating shutters or a more semipermanent arrangement such as the one I use on the north roof of my pit.
    • We are not at all permanent collections of particles. It is the patterns of matter and energy that are semipermanent (that is, changing only gradually), but our actual material content is changing constantly, and very quickly.
    • Although tens of thousands of refugees now live in semipermanent camps along the Thai border with Myanmar, some of them are periodically forced back against their will.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at semipermanent. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at semipermanent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at semipermanent

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA