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English Dictionary: permission	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for permission
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
permission n approval to do something; "he asked permission to leave" the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization Synonym(s): license, permission, permit
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Permission \Permis"sion\, n. [L. permissio: cf. F. permission. See {Permit}.] 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. Syn: Leave; liberty; license. Usage: {Leave}, {Permission}. Leave implies that the recipient may decide whether to use the license granted or not. Permission is the absence on the part of another of anything preventive, and in general, at least by implication, signifies approval.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
permission (Or "file mode") The ability to access (read, write, execute, traverse, etc.) a {file} or {directory}. Depending on the {operating system}, each file may have different permissions for different kinds of access and different users or groups of users. {chmod} ("change mode") is the {UNIX} command to change permissions. (2000-12-07)