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English
Pronunciation
Verb
fixed
- simple past and past participle of fix
Adjective
fixed (comparative more fixed, superlative most fixed)
- Attached; affixed.
- 1992, Rudolf M Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
- The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally […]
- Unable to move; unmovable.
- Synonyms: immobile, unmoveable, unmovable; see also Thesaurus:immobile
- Antonyms: mobile, moveable, movable; see also Thesaurus:movable
- Unable to change or vary.
- Synonyms: invariable; see also Thesaurus:immutable
- Antonyms: variable; see also Thesaurus:mutable
- fixed assets
- I work fixed hours for a fixed salary.
- Every religion has its own fixed ideas.
- He looked at me with a fixed glare.
- Unlikely to change; stable.
- Synonyms: stable; see also Thesaurus:steady
- Antonyms: volatile; see also Thesaurus:unsteady
- Supplied with what one needs.
- Synonyms: provided for, well-served
- Antonyms: lacking, wanting; see also Thesaurus:lacking
- She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
- How are you fixed for money?
- (law, of sound) Recorded on a permanent medium.
- In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.
- (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered sterile (e.g. spayed, neutered, or castrated).
- a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed
- Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
- The mob made a lot of money from fixed horse races.
- The U.S. often relied on fixed elections to keep anti-communist dictatorships in power.
- (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
- Repaired.
- (astrology) Being one of the signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, associated with stability, permanence, and preservation.
Derived terms
- basifixed
- centrifixed
- dorsifixed
- fixed air
- fixed asset
- fixed charge
- fixed cost
- fixed disc
- fixed disc drive
- fixed disk
- fixed disk drive
- fixed drive
- fixed feast
- fixed field
- fixed-gear bicycle
- fixed head coupé
- fixed idea
- fixed income
- fixed limit
- fixedly
- fixedness
- fixed odds
- fixed oil
- fixed penalty notice
- fixed phrase
- fixed-point
- fixed point
- fixed route
- fixed satellite
- fixed set
- fixed star
- fixed-term
- fixed-term contract
- fixed wave
- fixed-wing
- fixety
- Kleene fixed-point theorem
- Kleene's fixed-point theorem
- no fixed abode
- nonfixed
- semifixed
- space fixed reference
- Tarski's fixed-point theorem
- unfixed
- well-fixed
Translations
not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
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stationary — see stationary
surgically rendered infertile, castrated or spayed
repaired
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Taurus/Leo/Scorpio/Aquarius
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