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fixed

1. simple past and past participle of fix

fixed (comparative more fixed, superlative most fixed)

1. Attached; affixed.
   • 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. Not able to move; unmovable.
3. Not able to change or vary.

   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.
   2. (chemistry) Chemically stable.
5. Supplied with what one needs.

   She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.

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 infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).

   a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed

8. Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
9. (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
10. Repaired
11. (astrology) Being one of the signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, associated with stability, permanence, and preservation.

    Coordinate terms: cardinal, mutable

• (Not able to move): immobile, unmoveable/unmovable
• (Not able to change): Thesaurus: immutable
• (Not able to vary): invariable
• (Unlikely to change): stable

• (antonym(s) of “Not able to move”): mobile, moveable/movable
• (antonym(s) of “Not able to change”): Thesaurus: mutable
• (antonym(s) of “Not able to vary”): variable
• (antonym(s) of “Unlikely to change”): volatile

• broken
• crooked
• bribe

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