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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fix \Fix\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fixed} (f[i^]kst); p. pr & vb n. {Fixing}.] [Cf. F. fixer.] 1. To make firm, stable, or fast to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite. An ass's nole I fixed on his head. --Shak. O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence. --Herbert. His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. --Ps. cxii. 7. And fix far deeper in his head their stings. --Milton. 2. To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker. Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite. --Pope. One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven. --Young. 3. To transfix; to pierce. [Obs.] --Sandys. 4. (Photog.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light. --Abney. 5. To put in order to arrange; to dispose of to adjust to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence to repair; as to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room [Colloq. U.S.] 6. (Iron Manuf.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling. Syn: To arrange; prepare; adjust place establish; settle; determine. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fixed \Fixed\ (f[i^]kst), a. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fixed adj 1: (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value 2: fixed and unmoving; "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare"; "his bearded face already has a set hollow look"- Connor Cruise O'Brien; "a face rigid with pain" [syn: {set}, {rigid}] 3: securely placed or fastened or set "a fixed piece of wood"; "a fixed resistor" [ant: {unfixed}] 4: intent and directed steadily; "had her gaze fastened on the stranger"; "a fixed expresson" [syn: {fastened}] 5: incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"; "living on fixed incomes" [syn: {frozen}] 6: mended or put in working order "a reconditioned sewing machine"; "a repaired vacuum cleaner"; "the broken lock is now fixed" [syn: {reconditioned}, {repaired}] 7: not increasing as the amount taxed increases [syn: {flat}] 8: specified in advance; "a given number"; "we will meet at a given time and location" [syn: {given(a)}] 9: directed with intense concentration; "a fixed stare"; "an intent gaze" [syn: {intent}]
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