'Fixed capital' definitions:

Definition of 'Fixed capital'

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]

Definition of 'fixed capital'

From: GCIDE
  • capital \cap"i*tal\ (k[a^]p"[i^]*tal), n. [Cf. L. capitellum and capitulum, a small head, the head, top, or capital of a column, dim. of caput head; F. chapiteau, OF. capitel. See chief, and cf. cattle, chattel, chapiter, chapter.]
  • 1. (Arch.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. [Cf. F. capilate, fem., sc. ville.] (Geog.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. "A busy and splendid capital" --Macauly. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. [Cf. F. capital.] Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See {Capital stock}, under Capital, a. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Polit. Econ.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. --M'Culloch. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: When wealth is used to assist production it is called capital. The capital of a civilized community includes fixed capital (i.e. buildings, machines, and roads used in the course of production and exchange) and circulating capital (i.e., food, fuel, money, etc., spent in the course of production and exchange). --T. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence. [1913 Webster]
  • He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture. --London Times. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Fort.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. A chapter, or section, of a book. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Print.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a. [1913 Webster]
  • Active capital. See under Active,
  • Small capital (Print.), a small capital letter; informally referred to (in the plural) as small caps; as, the technical terms are listed in small caps. See under Capital, a.
  • To live on one's capital, to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it. [1913 Webster]