Stable; non-volatile. Fixed air (Old Chem.), carbonic acid orcarbon dioxide; -- so called by Dr. Black because it can be absorbedor fixed by strong bases. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.-- Fixed alkali (Old Chem.), a non-volatile base, as soda, orpotash, in distinction from the volatile alkali ammonia.-- Fixed ammunition (Mil.), a projectile and powder inclosedtogether in a case ready for loading.-- Fixed battery (Mil.), a battery which contains heavy guns andmortars intended to remain stationary; -- distinguished from movablebattery.-- Fixed bodies, those which can not be volatilized or separated bya 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 stearineand olein, which leave a permanent greasy stain, and which can not bedistilled unchanged; -- distinguished from volatile or essentialoils.-- Fixed pivot (Mil.), the fixed point about which any line oftroops wheels.-- Fixed stars (Astron.), such stars as always retain nearly thesame apparent position and distance with respect to each other, thusdistinguished from planets and comets.

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/topic/18207/fixedRSS for NodeMon, 15 Jun 2026 20:35:04 GMTWed, 22 Mar 2017 02:43:58 GMT60[Something] that is or [will] have a certain [outcome]

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/250019https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/250019Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:03:06 GMTFastened securely in position.

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/230269https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/230269Thu, 26 Sep 2019 04:30:07 GMTA word meaning 'to have sufficient money'

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/57336https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/57336Tue, 28 Mar 2017 05:21:16 GMTTo become intoxicated with alcohol and/or weed.

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/57335https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/57335Tue, 28 Mar 2017 05:21:16 GMTWhen someone looks really good, you say they look fixed

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/57334https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/57334Tue, 28 Mar 2017 05:21:16 GMTNeutered, castrated.

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/57333https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/57333Thu, 04 Nov 2021 06:34:02 GMTOn a forum, it is changing what another poster said in their own quote brackets and then writing fixed below it. It started out as simply correcting another posters

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