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A permanent wave, also known as a perm, is a hairstyle produced by setting the hair in waves or curls and then treating it with chemicals so that it lasts.
Permanent wave or Permanent Wave may also refer to:
- Permanent Wave (album), a 1980 album by the American artist John Hartford with Douglas and Rodney Dillard
- Permanent Wave (film), a 1929 animated film
- Permanent Wave (short film), a 1986 short film
- "Permanent Wave", an episode of season 4 of the TV show Quantum Leap
- Permanent Waves, a 1980 album by the Canadian rock band Rush
- Standing wave, a wave which oscillates in time but whose peak amplitude profile does not move in space