Fixed
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Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.
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Stable; non-volatile. (Chem.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Fixed air
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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
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a non-volatile base, as soda, or potash, in distinction from the volatile alkali ammonia.
- Fixed ammunition
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a projectile and powder inclosed together in a case ready for loading.
- Fixed battery
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a battery which contains heavy guns and mortars intended to remain stationary; -- distinguished from movable battery.
- Fixed bodies
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those which can not be volatilized or separated by a common menstruum, without great difficulty, as gold, platinum, lime, etc.
- Fixed capital
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See the Note under Capital, n., 4.
- Fixed fact
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a well established fact.
- Fixed light
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one which emits constant beams; -- distinguished from a flashing, revolving, or intermittent light.
- Fixed oils
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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
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the fixed point about which any line of troops wheels.
- Fixed stars
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such stars as always retain nearly the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, thus distinguished from planets and comets.