'Fixed' definitions:

Definition of 'fixed'

(from WordNet)
adjective
(of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value
adjective
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: fixed, set, rigid]
adjective
Securely placed or fastened or set; "a fixed piece of wood"; "a fixed resistor" [ant: unfixed]
adjective
Incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"; "living on fixed incomes" [syn: fixed, frozen]

Definition of 'Fixed'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • An ass's nole I fixed on his head. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence. --Herbert. [1913 Webster]
  • His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. --Ps. cxii. 7. [1913 Webster]
  • And fix far deeper in his head their stings. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker. [1913 Webster]
  • Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven. --Young. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To transfix; to pierce. [Obs.] --Sandys. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Photog.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with a developer to make it insensible to the action of light. --Abney. [1913 Webster]
  • 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Iron Manuf.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
  • Syn: To arrange; prepare; adjust; place; establish; settle; determine. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Fixed'

From: GCIDE
  • Fixed \Fixed\ (f[i^]kst), a.
  • 1. Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Chem.) Stable; non-volatile. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'fixed'

From: Moby Thesaurus