fixity
English edit
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- (dated): fixety
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
fixity (countable and uncountable, plural fixities)
- (uncountable) The state or condition of being fixed.
- 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 557:
- [O]therwise, it is almost inescapable that there must be some sort of centralized mechanism guaranteeing the fixity of prices[.]
- (countable) Something fixed.
- (programming) The position of an operator relative to its operand (prefix, postfix) or operands (infix).
- One may use a fixity declaration in Haskell to describe an operator's precedence and direction of associativity.
Synonyms edit
- (state or condition of being fixed): fixedness