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Fixed adj.

1.

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

2.

(Chem.) Stable; non-volatile.

Fixed air (Old Chem.), carbonic acid or carbon dioxide; so called by Dr. Black because it can be absorbed or fixed by strong bases. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.

Fixed alkali (Old Chem.), a non-volatile base, as soda, or potash, in distinction from the volatile alkali ammonia.

Fixed ammunition (Mil.), a projectile and powder inclosed together in a case ready for loading.

Fixed battery (Mil.), a battery which contains heavy guns and mortars intended to remain stationary; distinguished from movable battery.

Fixed bodies, those which can not be volatilized or separated by a common menstruum, without great difficulty, as gold, platinum, lime, etc.

Fixed capital. See the Note under Capital, n., 4.

Fixed fact, a well established fact. (Colloq.)

Fixed light, one which emits constant beams; distinguished from a flashing, revolving, or intermittent light.

Fixed oils (Chem.), non-volatile, oily substances, as stearine and olein, which leave a permanent greasy stain, and which can not be distilled unchanged; distinguished from volatile or essential oils.

Fixed pivot (Mil.), the fixed point about which any line of troops wheels.

Fixed stars (Astron.), such stars as always retain nearly the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, thus distinguished from planets and comets.

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Etymology of 'Fixed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fixed" Quotes from Famous Books

... dear Marcellinus, of that most glorious City of God, both in her present pilgrimage and life by faith, and in that fixed and everlasting seat which she awaits in patience. I write to defend her against those who place their gods above her Founder—a great and arduous work, but God is my aid. I well know what power a writer needs who would show the proud how great ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various

... consisting of a grimy- looking man, somewhat under the middle size, dressed in faded velveteens, and wearing a leather apron—a rather pretty-looking woman, but sun-burnt, and meanly dressed, and two ragged children, a boy and girl, about four or five years old. The man sat with his eyes fixed upon the table, supporting his chin with both his hands; the woman, who was next him, sat quite still, save that occasionally she turned a glance upon her husband with eyes that appeared to have been lately crying. The children had none of the vivacity so general at their age. A more disconsolate ...

— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow

... submitted to Guerin, and from the sketches he fixed the scale of the figures. In one instance the change of scale led to a change of subject. The second sketches were made on a larger scale. When they were accepted the decorators were told that the final canvases were to be painted in San Francisco in order to make ...

— The City of Domes • John D. Barry

... the same objection pressed more closely—is this. The present definition naturally brings up the picture of certain constant and stable surroundings enclosing an environed object which is to be changed at their demand. No such state of things exists. There is no fixed environment. It is always fixable. Every environment is plastic and derives its character, at least partially, from the environed object. Each stone sends out its little gravitative and chemical ...

— The Nature of Goodness • George Herbert Palmer

... upward. Our end of it was tied to the rope ladder, which Hugues unfolded as it continued to be drawn up by Mathilde. At the junction of cord and ladder was fixed the paper with instructions. Mathilde could not overlook this nor mistake its purpose. When the ladder was nearly all in the air, its movement ceased. We knew then that Mathilde had the other end of it. Presently the window ...

— The Bright Face of Danger • Robert Neilson Stephens

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