fixed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪkst/, Rhymes: -ɪkst

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /fɪks(e)ɖ/

Verb

fixed

1. simple past and past participle of fix

Adjective

fixed (comparative more fixed, superlative most fixed)

1. Attached; affixed.

   Synonyms: bound, connected, joined

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] 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 […]

2. Unable to move; unmovable.

   Synonyms: immobile, unmoveable, unmovable; see also Thesaurus:immobile

   Antonyms: mobile, moveable, movable; see also Thesaurus:movable

3. 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.

4. Unlikely to change; stable.

   Synonyms: stable; see also Thesaurus:steady

   Antonyms: volatile; see also Thesaurus:unsteady

   2. (chemistry) Chemically stable.
5. 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?

6. (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.

7. (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered sterile (e.g. spayed, neutered, or castrated).

   a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed

8. 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.

9. (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
10. Repaired.

    Synonyms: mended, patched

11. (astrology) Being one of the signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, associated with stability, permanence, and preservation.

    Coordinate terms: cardinal, mutable

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

• Albanian: gul (sq)(gheg) , ngulur (sq)
• Asturian: fixu
• Bulgarian: постоянен (bg) (postojanen), неподвижен (bg) (nepodvižen)
• Catalan: fix (ca)
• Finnish: kiinteä (fi)
• French: fixé (fr)
• German: fixiert (de), fix (de)
• Greek: τακτός (el) (taktós)

  Ancient: πηκτός (pēktós)

• Hindi: स्थिर (hi) (sthir), निश्चित (niścit)
• Irish: diongbháilte
• Italian: fisso (it)
• Japanese: 固定された (ja) (kotei sareta), 安定的な (anteiteki na)
• Latin: status (la)
• Malayalam: നിശ്ചിത (ml) (niścita), സ്ഥിര (ml) (sthira)
• Maori: māhoi
• Occitan: fix (oc), fixe (oc), fixat
• Persian: ثابت (fa) (sâbet), فیکس (fa) (fiks)
• Portuguese: fixado (pt), fixo (pt)
• Russian: фикси́рованный (ru) (fiksírovannyj), устано́вленный (ru) (ustanóvlennyj)
• Spanish: fijo (es)
• Turkish: sabit (tr), değişmez (tr)
• Uyghur: مۇقىم (muqim)

stationary — see stationary

surgically rendered infertile, castrated or spayed

• French: castré (fr), châtré (fr)
• German: kastriert (de), sterilisiert (de) (female animals), verschnitten (de)
• Italian: castrato (it) m
• Occitan: castrat, crestat

repaired

• Latin: refectus

Taurus/Leo/Scorpio/Aquarius

• Finnish: kiinteä

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Translations to be checked

• Norman: ^{(please verify)} fixe (Jersey)

See also

• broken
• crooked
• bribe

Anagrams

• defix