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A salt of permanganic acid. Potassium permanganate. (Chem.) See Potassium permanganate, under Potassium.

Pertaining to, or designating, one of the higher acids of manganese, HMnO4, which forms salts called permanganates.

Continuance. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The quality or state of being permeable. Magnetic permeability (Physics), the specific capacity of a body for magnetic induction, or its conducting power for lines of magnetic force. Sir W. Thomson.

Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light. I. Taylor.

In a permeable manner.

Permeation; specif. (Magnetism),

Passing through; permeating. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

-- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand. Woodward.

The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance. Here is not a mere involution only, but a spiritual permeation and inexistence. Bp. Hall.

Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era. -- n.

A tribe belonging to the Finnic race, and inhabiting a portion of Russia.

Capable of being mixed.

A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent. [Obs.] Milton.

The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.

That may be permitted; allowable; admissible. -- Per*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Per*mis"si*bly, adv.

The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted. High permission of all-ruling Heaven. Milton. You have given me your permission for this address. Dryden.

Permitting; granting leave or liberty. "By his permissive will." Milton.

In a permissive manner.

The act of mixing; the state of being mingled; mixture. [Written also permixtion.]