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1. A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.

2. Given an n \times n matrix a_{ij} \,, the sum over all permutations \pi \, of \prod_{i=1}^n{a_{i\pi(i)}}.

3. (trading card games) A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.