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Definition of Fixed

1. Adjective. (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value.

2. Adjective. Fixed and unmoving. "A face rigid with pain"

3. Adjective. Securely placed or fastened or set. "A fixed resistor"

4. Adjective. Incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g.. "Living on fixed incomes"

Definition of Fixed

1. a. Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.

Definition of Fixed

1. Verb. (past of fix) ¹

2. Adjective. Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same. ¹

3. Adjective. Stationary. ¹

4. Adjective. Attached; affixed ¹

5. Adjective. Chemically stable. ¹

6. Adjective. Supplied with what one needs. ¹

7. Adjective. (legal) To record a sound on a permanent medium ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fixed

1. fix [v] - See also: fix

Medical Definition of Fixed

1. 1. Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable. 2. Stable; non-volatile. Fixed air, the fixed point about which any line of troops wheels. Fixed stars, such stars as always retain nearly the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, thus distinguished from planets and comets. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fixed

fixation fixation disparity fixation nystagmus fixation reaction fixational fixational ocular movement fixations fixative fixatives fixator

fixator muscle fixators fixature fixatures fixe fixed (current term) fixed-combination drug fixed-cycle operation fixed-gear bicycle fixed-income

fixed-point fixed-point notation fixed-point number fixed-point part fixed-point representation system fixed-rate pacemaker fixed-term fixed-term contract fixed-width font fixed address

Literary usage of Fixed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1898)
"Under the names of fixed oils, fatty oils, fats, and waxes is classed a number of ... The term fixed or fatty oil is generally used for such members of the ..."

2. Practical Least Squares by Ora Miner Leland (1921)
"Adjustment to Conform to Work Previously Adjusted or fixed. ... If the connection be to one fixed line, only, that line would be used as a base-line ..."

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